Review of William Mounce’s Morphology of Biblical Greek
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
If you want to use Greek to learn, teach or study the New Testament, this book is essential for the long term.
I found the information on consonantal iota (p43f), digamma (p45f), accentuation (p47f) particularly useful. The paradigms and referencing system is also something you’d definitely pick this volume up for. Every word is accented throughout.
A few minor errors (then again it could always be me that’s wrong):
p50- “preperispomenon” should be “properispomenon”
p201- n3d(1) should include KREAS (meat).
p335- ERHMOS is a-3a, but also n-2b, see footnote 3 on p232.
I bought the soft-cover from Amazon, but immediately covered it with contact. It is too valuable to allow to fray.
In short, this is a very handy volume, but usefulness is lessened by reliance on the short contents page and a word index without page numbers to find one’s way around.
