Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jloucks@uts.amdahl.com (Jim Loucks) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Greek and Hewbrew study guides Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 09:17:50 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 61 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I'd like to study Greek and Hebrew but I don't know where to start. I found one book that looked interesting - "The Zondervan Parallel New Testament in Greek and English" which contained the NIV and KJV versions. I'm not really interested in the KJV but it was right along side the NIV. Is there a similar book with just the NIV? Is there an advantage to having KJV? If I had my choice, it would be NIV and NASV side by side. Another book was "Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms" by Richard A. Muller which seemed very helpful. Any comments about this book or any others like it? Any ideas about Hebrew books? I keep seeing references to "ho theos" which I couldn't find at all in the Greek Bible. Is "ho theos" Hebrew? As you can see, my knowledge in this subject is small if not non-existent. I respect a lot of your opinions out there, but I won't tell you who just to keep you humble! :-) I need your help! Please email your response. Thanks -- Jim Loucks {sun, pyramid, uunet}!amdahl!jloucks We cannot pander to a man's intellectual arrogance, but we must cater to his intellectual integrity. - John Stott ["ho theos" is Greek for God. It's certainly there in the Greek Bible. There's a problem in transliterating from Greek to ASCII, "ho" is being used to represent an "o" with a "`" over it. Trying to learn Greek from a dictionary strikes me as doing it the hard way. I used a book which walked you through the book of John, pointing out grammatical points and vocabulary as they came up. It was a workbook designed for self-study (or use in classes -- it was used by the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary). The title is "New Testament Greek Workbook: An Inductive Study of the Complete Text of the Gospel of John" from the U. of Chicago Press. I believe I've seen similar books recently. You'll want a text like that, a dictionary, and a grammar. I'm in no position to recommend specific ones, but what P.T.S. used was Dana and Mantey, "A Manual Grammar of the Greek N.T.", Macmillan, and the for a dictionary, the abridged Gingrich. (The full Gingrich is a standard reference book, but it's large enough to be unwieldy for learning a language, and is also a bit expensive.) I have never looked at Hebrew, and have no recommendations there. There are parallel NT's based on NIV and RSV, I believe also from Zondervan. (My older one is based on RSV, I believe from Zondervan. Unfortunately it's at Rutgers, so I can't be sure.) The one I'm using now is "The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament", from Tyndale, 1990. It's based on the NRSV and the UBS 3rd Edition/Nestle-Aland 26th edition. Apparently many interlinears are of dubious scholarship, so you want to be a bit careful. --clh]