Thursday, October 29, 2009

A. T. Robertson's A Grammar of New Testament Greek in Light of Historical Research

A.T. Robertson's A Grammar of New Testament Greek in Light of Historical Research (1919 3rd edition) is something of a classic in Greek grammar that remains important still today. Though unaware of the papyrii discoveries that have happened since 1919, Robertson's work is important for his familiarity with classical Greek and Latin and his awareness of the work of 19th century Greek grammarians. He was also able to draw upon some of the early work of such noted grammarians like Blass, Deissmann, Moulton, and Burton.

A Grammar of New Testament Greek in Light of Historical Research
is
included in BibleWorks8 and all the references to examples in the NT are cross-linked. It is similarly included in the "Greek Study Group" of Accordance which is part of Scholar's 8 Standard Level and up. It's an $80 or so addon for Logos.

If you don't have these programs and can go without the crosslinking,
A Grammar of New Testament Greek in Light of Historical Research is available at Archive.org in a variety of formats, but this is the first edition of 1914. A notice on the B-Greek list, however, brings attention to the work of Ted Hildebrandt and Louis Sorenson who have provided very attractive MS Word files of the third edition (doc, docm, and docx) that has Unicode Greek/Hebrew and includes a Table of Contents with internal links. Thanks to them for sharing their work and making this valuable resource available!

3 comments:

  1. It has taken me longer than I thought (basically, tagging all the Bible references was a big task!), but I have inserted the text of the Word files into the LaParola program (http://www.laparola.net/program/), so it can be read there for free and with all the Bible references cross-linked.

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  2. For those interested in the Greek NT, here is link to a free Greet NT, prepared by Society of Biblical Literature and enhanced with the Direct Verse Jump navigation by OSNOVA - http://store.osnova.com/FREE-The-SBL-Greek-New-Testament-OSNOVA-edition-with-DVJ_p_48.html.

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  3. You might also find interesting and useful this Essential Greek NT for the Absolute Beginners, with built-in flash cards, verb parsing and word forms, available for use on Kindle and Kindle apps: http://store.osnova.com/The-Essential-Greek-New-Testament-For-the-Absolute-Beginner-Kindle_p_55.html

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