KOINE GREEK: Bibliography


PRONUNCIATION

  1. Allen, W. Sidney, Vox Graeca: The Pronunciation of Classical Greek. Third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  2. Caragounis, Chrys. “The Error of Erasmus and Un-Greek Pronunciations of Greek.” Filologia Neotestamentaria. Vol. 8, November 1993.
  3. Gignac, Francis T. A Grammar of the Greek Papyri of the Roman and Byzantine Periods. 2 vols. Milan: Instituto Editoriale Cisalpino, 1976, 1981. [Vol. 1 deals with phonology, vol. 2 with morphology.]

LANGUAGE

  1. Fanning, Buist. Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  2. Green, J. B. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

  3. Ladd, George Eldon. The New Testament and Criticism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1967.

  4. List, J., E. Eynikel, and K. Hauspie. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. 2 vols. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994-96.

  5. Nida, Eugene, and Johannes Louw. Lexical Semantics of the Greek NT: A Supplement to the Greek-English Lexicon of the NT Based on Semantic Domains. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992.

  6. Porter, Stanley. Verbal Aspect in the Greek New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood. Studies in Biblical Greek series, vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

  7. Porter, Stanley and D. A. Carson, eds. "Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics." Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Supplement series 80. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993.

  8. Sihler, Andrew L. New Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar, Oxford University Press, 1995. (Regarding consonantal iota, pp. 187ff [#191], "Consonantal iota certainly did exist and although it evanesced in the early historical period, its evanescence has left us the immense headache of the contract verbs and all the varieties of vowel matathesis in verbs like baivnw from an original baniw, etc. etc." —Carl Conrad.)

  9. Silva, Moises. Biblical Words and Their Meanings: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics. Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 1983. 2nd ed., 1994.

  10. Silva, Moises. Semantic Change and Semitic Influence in the Greek Bible: With a Study of the Semantic Field of Mind. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Manchester, 1972.

  11. Snell, Bruno. The Discovery of the Mind. ["There's a marvelous chapter in a not-very-recent book by Bruno Snell…The chapter was entitled, as I recall, "The invention of the Article." It's all about what sixth-century Ionian writers made of this little weak demonstrative pronoun ho, he, to that they inherited from the older language."—Carl Conrad]

  12. Windham, Neal. New Testament Greek for Preachers and Teachers. University Press of America, 1991.

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