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Greek Grammar

Black, David Alan. Using New Testament Greek in Ministry: A Practical Guide for Students. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1993. An encouraging guide to remind some and motivate others of the importance of Greek in one’s ministry.

Blass, F. W., A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk. Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. This is the classic Greek reference grammar which students will still need to refer to. The pastor using original languages will find Wallace (see below) more usable.

Campbell, Constantine R. Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010. The title says it all. Very practical.

Campbell, Constantine R., and D. A. Carson. Advances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015. This book surveys developments in the study of Greek grammar over the past century, particularly those involving the application of modern linguistic methodologies. Topics include verbal aspect theory, deponency, lexical semantics, and discourse analysis. These examples may seem esoteric, but they impinge directly upon our understanding of the New Testament and thus are important for anyone working with original languages. This excellent book provides pastors and students a helpful introduction to scholarship that might otherwise be inaccessible.

Harris, Murray J. Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament: An Essential Reference Resource for Exegesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012. Harris is one of evangelicalism’s foremost Greek grammarians and NT scholars. This authoritative book is an expansion of his 45 pp. appendix on prepositions in vol. 4 of the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. 

Köstenberger, Andreas J., Benjamin L. Merkle, and Robert L. Plummer. Going Deeper with New Testament Greek: An Intermediate Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the New Testament. Nashville: B&H, 2020. An up to date, very user-friendly book. This is an excellent text for a Greek syntax course and would also serve as a helpful companion to the pastor wanting to move beyond his recall of his elementary Greek.

Merkle, Benjamin L., Robert L. Plummer, and William D. Mounce. Greek for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving New Testament Greek. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017. For the student learning Greek or the pastor returning to it, this book provides much wise and practical assistance.

Moule, C. F. Idiom Book of New Testament Greek. 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. 4th ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. Since its original publication in 1993, this has become the standard seminary Greek text, and it has continued to improve since, particularly with its updated discussions on advances in Greek grammar in recent decades.

Mounce, William D. The Morphology of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994. This is one of the most underappreciated tools among Greek students, but it’s invaluable for those wanting to deepen their knowledge of Greek. Explains how those strange word forms came about.

Runge, Steven E. Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2015. Many of the advances in the use of Greek over the past few decades have come in the area of linguistics. This is a clear, accessible text that seeks to bridge the gap between the traditional study of grammar and the more recent influence of linguistics in focusing upon larger structures of discourse.

*Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008. A clear, comprehensive intermediate grammar that has gained widespread trust. Much easier to use than the classic Blass/Debrunner/Funk, especially for the pastor. Highly recommended.

Wallace, Daniel B. The Basics of New Testament Syntax: An Intermediate Greek Grammar. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000. This is an abridgement of Wallace’s larger grammar. Less comprehensive but still useful.