John Dobson - Learn NT Greek

[graciecat]

What's the content of the book as it was my first time to hear it? During this pandemic, I spend most of my time watching rather than reading.

 

[Bassoonery]

What's the content of the book as it was my first time to hear it? During this pandemic, I spend most of my time watching rather than reading.

Oh I am sure I have done much more watching than reading too!

Are you referring to the book which is the subject of this thread? It's a self-study guide to learning New Testament Greek. Unlike many language books, it introduces you to various sentences of increasing complexity, peeling back aspects of the grammar whenever necessary. The aim of the book is to give you enough familiarity to be able to read simple passages from the New Testament in Greek.

 

[Bassoonery]

Well, I didn't expect this thread to get featured! Since it has, let me post some bonus resources which I have stumbled upon:

Contents - Online Greek Textbook An online book by Dr Shirley Robinson. Check out her home-page, she has led a fascinating life! Apparently her book is based on Dobson's but sets out the grammar more systematically. A helpful counterpart. She has both an accented and unaccented version.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRSbS2XhqOhnSUzWfGHUkLg "Daily Dose of Greek" - one verse every day. It's way beyond my level, aimed at helping pastors keep their Greek brushed up, but I genuinely look forward to each installment. 2 minutes a day well spent.

 

[Yeshua1]

I learned enough Greek to know how much that I do not know. I learned that people that know a LOT of Greek might still know very LITTLE, even some modern Greek professors.

My Pastor had 5years of both Greek and Hebrew, but still says that he still has a lot to learn!

 

[Yeshua1]

One motivation for me is wanting to follow arguments properly when authors (or forum posters!) use the biblical languages. I just finished a book that was very Hebrew-heavy and I had to take what the authors said at face value.

It's the same with music - you can only get the most out of a musicology book if you know how to read musical notation, but knowing notation is not essential for being a musician just as knowing Greek is not essential for being a Christian.

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studying Greek and Hebrew helpful in being able to read and make more sense of footnotes in the more scholarly commentaries!

 

[kathleenmariekg]

Well, I didn't expect this thread to get featured! Since it has, let me post some bonus resources which I have stumbled upon:

Contents - Online Greek Textbook An online book by Dr Shirley Robinson. Check out her home-page, she has led a fascinating life! Apparently her book is based on Dobson's but sets out the grammar more systematically. A helpful counterpart. She has both an accented and unaccented version.

Thanks!

Wow, I didn't know she finished the 2nd edtion notes! I used her unaccented notes with the first edition, but then switched to the 2nd as soon as it came out. She took quite awhile to get her notes up and I stopped checking a long time ago.