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A Beginner's Reader-Grammar for New Testament Greek by E. C. COLWELL in collaboration with E. W. TUNE. - Harper & Row, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N.Y., Evanston and London, 1965. $ 3.75

A Beginner's Reader-Grammar for New Testament Greek by E. C. COLWELL in collaboration with E. W.... 331 BOOK REVIEWS A Beginner's Reader-Grammar for New Testament Greek by E. C. COLWELL in collaboration with E. W. TUNE. - Harper & Row, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N.Y., Evanston and London, 1965. $ 3.75. In the United States beginning students in the field of theology usually do not have a thorough experience in any kind of Greek. This reader-grammar starts therefore from the assumption that such experience is wholly lacking and wants the student to master the basic structure of the language within a semester. These circumstances remind of war time when many people in the army had to learn an often totally unrelated language in a few months. It is a well known fact that a.o. the experience gathered from such courses has influenced the development of descriptive linguistics and language instruction in the United States. It can hardly be a coincidence that this book bids farewell to the old method which consisted of a mechanical memorization of paradigms followed by the application of the knowledge thus acquired in exercises. As has been said the authors want the student to master the structure of NT Greek in its most rudimentary and most essential http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

A Beginner's Reader-Grammar for New Testament Greek by E. C. COLWELL in collaboration with E. W. TUNE. - Harper & Row, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N.Y., Evanston and London, 1965. $ 3.75

Novum Testamentum , Volume 7 (4): 331 – Jan 1, 1965

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Brill
Copyright
© 1965 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0048-1009
eISSN
1568-5365
DOI
10.1163/156853665X00096
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331 BOOK REVIEWS A Beginner's Reader-Grammar for New Testament Greek by E. C. COLWELL in collaboration with E. W. TUNE. - Harper & Row, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N.Y., Evanston and London, 1965. $ 3.75. In the United States beginning students in the field of theology usually do not have a thorough experience in any kind of Greek. This reader-grammar starts therefore from the assumption that such experience is wholly lacking and wants the student to master the basic structure of the language within a semester. These circumstances remind of war time when many people in the army had to learn an often totally unrelated language in a few months. It is a well known fact that a.o. the experience gathered from such courses has influenced the development of descriptive linguistics and language instruction in the United States. It can hardly be a coincidence that this book bids farewell to the old method which consisted of a mechanical memorization of paradigms followed by the application of the knowledge thus acquired in exercises. As has been said the authors want the student to master the structure of NT Greek in its most rudimentary and most essential

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Novum TestamentumBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1965

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