Idioms of the Greek New Testament

Students needing a tool to guide them from elementary textbooks to full fledged reference grammars will welcome this book. This grammar can be used in three ways: as an instructive handbook, as an intermediate level textbook, and as a basic reference work to the Greek of the New Testament. The major topics of Greek grammar are treated in a useful pedagogical sequence. Substantial discussions are provided on Greek verb structure, the case system, the use of prepositions, particles, and various types of clauses, among others. This book charts new ground in many of its chapters. Among the innovative treatments are those on tense and aspect, mood and attitude, conditional clauses, word order and clause structure, and discourse analysis. The entire grammar is written with one eye on the traditional categories of Greek grammar and with the other on recent discussions of structural linguistics. A glossary of terms and full indexes are provided.