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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
Novum Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1965
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