For those who enjoy going the extra mile in your Bible studies, this link is great ! Ever since I started bearing down on the New Testament, its origins, history, etc. I became convinced to learn to be able to make more sense of it in the original language. It's deepened my faith for sure and it's given me a better sense of translation, the Gosples and Jesus. It definitely took away my fear of having to take a college class or struggle through a language instruction book to find out what is really in the text !!!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Learn_New_Testament_Greek/

Don't feel you have to get it all at once. For me it's like "peeling the onion." You can learn as much as you want in small steps. My friend also included this link a month later, although I haven't had time yet to check it out. Looks helpful, though:

http://www.greekgrammar.org/

I am taking a class on this book (Basics to Biblical Greek). There is also a "Basics to Biblical Hebrew" if that's more what catches your interest.

http://www.teknia.com/bbg_resources

There's 38 Chapters in Basics to Biblical Greek
I'm on 26 so It'd be helpful to have other people learn Koine Greek

My username (Ixthus) is Koine Greek for "fish" though I suppose a good number of you know that already

I am taking a class on this book (Basics to Biblical Greek). There is also a "Basics to Biblical Hebrew" if that's more what catches your interest.

http://www.teknia.com/bbg_resources

There's 38 Chapters in Basics to Biblical Greek
I'm on 26 so It'd be helpful to have other people learn Koine Greek

My username (Ixthus) is Koine Greek for "fish" though I suppose a good number of you know that already

Heyyy sounds fishy to me!;)

Seriously, It is good to have a working knowledge of greek. The different aspects of the verbs such as mood,voice and tense can give amazing insight into certain passages.
I suggest that you get A.T Robertson's " A grammer of new testament greek in the light of historical research:

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=11092640&author=Robertson%2C+A+T&browse=1&qsort=p&matches=21&cm_sp=works*listing*buyused

And Kittel's dictionary of new testament greek:
http://www.amazon.com/Theological-Dictionary-Testament-Gerhard-Kittel/dp/0802824048

And perhaps Kittle's 10 volume set if you REALLY want to dig deep:
(expensive)

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?S=R&bid=9510152495&cm_mmc=shopcompare-_-base-_-aisbn-_-na

Heyyy sounds fishy to me!;)

:rofl:


Seriously, It is good to have a working knowledge of greek. The different aspects of the verbs such as mood,voice and tense can give amazing insight into certain passages.
I suggest that you get A.T Robertson's " A grammer of new testament greek in the light of historical research:

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=11092640&author=Robertson%2C+A+T&browse=1&qsort=p&matches=21&cm_sp=works*listing*buyused

And Kittel's dictionary of new testament greek:
http://www.amazon.com/Theological-Dictionary-Testament-Gerhard-Kittel/dp/0802824048

And perhaps Kittle's 10 volume set if you REALLY want to dig deep:
(expensive)

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?S=R&bid=9510152495&cm_mmc=shopcompare-_-base-_-aisbn-_-na





I wish I could just blink and learn both Hebrew and Greek. I almost quit nursing school when I went through it...Learning Hebrew and Greek sounds even harder :o

I think I will just be content to sit at the Biblical Scholars' feet. They are always so nice to me, anyway :hug: Even when I ask alot of questions :)

I wish I could just blink and learn both Hebrew and Greek. I almost quit nursing school when I went through it...Learning Hebrew and Greek sounds even harder :o

I think I will just be content to sit at the Biblical Scholars' feet. They are always so nice to me, anyway :hug: Even when I ask alot of questions :)

You don't have to know Greek to investige the original language of scriptural text. Get a good reverse interlinear Bible and good lexicon (dictionary). Crossway publishes a great reverse interlinear in the ESV traslation. It gives you enough background on basic greek in its excellent introduction that can use the codes and strong's number in the text to determine a lot of subtleties of the original text. You can not only look up the original meaning of the word at issue (in the lexicon) but you can determine the tense, gender, person of the participles. No, it's not as good as learning Greek but for those of use who don't have the time to learn Greek it's the next best thing and certainly enhances one's ability to understand the text.

You don't have to know Greek to investige the original language of scriptural text. Get a good reverse interlinear Bible and good lexicon (dictionary). Crossway publishes a great reverse interlinear in the ESV traslation. It gives you enough background on basic greek in its excellent introduction that can use the codes and strong's number in the text to determine a lot of subtleties of the original text. You can not only look up the original meaning of the word at issue (in the lexicon) but you can determine the tense, gender, person of the participles. No, it's not as good as learning Greek but for those of use who don't have the time to learn Greek it's the next best thing and certainly enhances one's ability to understand the text.

When I was in seminary one of my professors had a section of his class that he called "poor persons Greek." It was for those of us who didn't read Greek. It amounted to how to transliterate and do just exactly what you suggest. It does work pretty well.