Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek - Softcover

Metzger, Bruce M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964489104 ISBN 13: 9780964489103

Publisher: Princeton Theological Seminary, 1969

According to the psychologist, man learns by associating the new with the old, the strange with the familiar. In studying a foreign language, therefore, the beginner will do well to observe whatever similarities may exist between his own and the other language. Part I of the following Lexical Aids makes use of this principle of associative learning by supplying, after the English definitions of Greek words, such English derivatives as may be of assistance in remembering the meaning of the Greek vocabulary. The Greek words in the list, furthermore, have been selected and arranged in accord with their frequency of occurrence in the New Testament. Part II makes a different application of the same psychological principle. Here are exhibited the family relationships among words of frequent and less frequent occurrence. After a student has become acquainted with a minimum working vocabulary of words that occur many times in the New Testament he can make more rapid progress in acquiring a larger vocabulary by learning such additional words as resemble in general meaning and form those which he already knows. --- excerpt from book's Preface

About the Author:

Bruce M. Metzger is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. A past president of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, he has made valuable contributions to the areas of textual criticism, philology, paleography, and translation.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Greek

• Publisher: Princeton Theological Seminary
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0964489104
• ISBN 13: 9780964489103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100