It's Still Greek to Me

Preface     11
A Word to the Teacher     13
Acknowledgments     15
List of Abbreviations     16

Part 1: Up the Greek without a Paddle: This Thing
             Called Grammar

1.  There's No Place like Rome: The Parts of Speech and
     Their Function      19

2. Group Therapy: The Sentence and Its Parts     30

Part 2: The Greeks Had a Word for It: The Greek
             Noun System

3.  Just in Case: Overcoming Declension
     Apprehension     43

4.  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Adjectives
     Large and Small     57

5.  Woe Is I: Overcoming Pronoun Paranoia     66

6.  Have Mercy on Me, the Sinner: Those Articulate
     Articles     75

7.  Up, Up, and Away: Those Preposterous
     Prepositions     82

Part 3: Rho, Rho, Rho Your Boat: The Greek Verb
             System

8.  Tense Times with Verbs (1): An Overview of Greek
     Inflections     91

9.  Tense Times with Verbs (2): Interpreting the Greek
     Tenses     104

10.  To Be or Not to Be: The Infinitive     113

11.  Going, Going, Gone: The Participle     121

12.  It's a Small Word after All: Adverbs, Conjunctions,
       and Particles     127

Part 4: From Alpha to Omega: Finishing Touches

13.  A Cure for Clausetrophobia: Greek Clauses     141

14.  To Koine Phrase: The Greek of the New
       Testament     147

Postscript     155
Key to the Exercises     158
Appendix 1: Greek Verb Conjugations     165
Appendix 2: Principal Parts of Selected Verbs     177
Summary of Topics     179
Subjects Index     183
Greek Word Index     186
Scripture Index     188