[JimBurke]

I have outdone myself. Yes, purchased too many Greek books in a fit of passion for Greek. So these extra ones will be free to you and no cost for postage either. They are all in great shape.

A small challenge. Write a little essay note in reply at this forum describing what book you want and why you want it. Perhaps think of your goals in life and Greek and what book might help you in pursuit of those goals. And how it might help your knowledge of Greek. The best answer gets the book. When? By class start time Thurs 10/02/06.

So what I have is . . . .

Learn New Testament Greek 3rd ed, John H. Dobson, Hardback

Greek An Intensive Course, Hardy Hanson and Gerald M. Quinn, 2nd revised edition, eighth printing 2004

Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament, Warren C. Trenchard

Greek Grammar, Herbert Weir Smyth

Also if you already have one of these feel free to comment. All thoughts welcome.
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[JimBurke]

By what? Had an impossible date in first note (unless you time travel). How about by the start our next class 10/28/06. That way they get out of here and into your hands quickly.

Your "why" note is not going for the Booker or Pulitzer prize either. Just a "why I need the book" kind of note.
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[stephenR]

For what it is worth, i already have Trenchard.

It surprises me that you are trying to get rid of your textbooks at the start of the course. Are you thinking of dropping out?

Stephen

[JimBurke]

Stephen,

Dropping out? Moi? No, I am into Greek for the long term. I am most grateful to Mr. Schwandt and the people at New St Johns for presenting this class.

Extra Books. I have a personal library of 600 books on all subjects. Sometime I accidentally get extra copies of books. Thats what happened here with the four Greek books that I have extra copies of.

Essential Library I and II. Quite a nice list. Thanks for producing this. When studying Greek, I typically have three or four Greek books spread out over the table. My favorite "extra" book at the moment is "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature". That book reveals that the "not" of p56 conversational exercises, "I am not doing badly", is more than it seems. When looked up, that "not" is deeply evocative of denial - much more than the simple "not" used in English.
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[Anthony DeKorte]

Hi Jim,

What a generous offer!

I would be most interested in the Trenchard book. I still need to purchase the Mounce book, a Greek Bible, and a lexicon, so a free vocabulary book would sure come in handy. I may even be able to get by without that prohibitively expensive lexicon reference book for a while. Although I planning on doing Greek for long time, so I will probably need the big one sooner or later. Perhaps I will have to repeat your offer I no longer need the Trenchard book.

Just email me at andyltd@aol.com if I win.

Thanks,
Anthony

[Anthony DeKorte]

Hi Jim,

What a generous offer!

I would be most interested in the Trenchard book. I still need to purchase the Mounce book, a Greek Bible, and a lexicon, so a free vocabulary book would sure come in handy. I may even be able to get by without that prohibitively expensive lexicon reference book for a while. Although I planning on doing Greek for long time, so I will probably need the big one sooner or later. Perhaps I will have to repeat your offer I no longer need the Trenchard book.

Just email me at andyltd@aol.com or tell me in class Thursday if I win.

Thanks,
Anthony

[stephenR]

Trenchard is a very nice book. It has an exhaustive listing of every word in the Greek NT, with the frequency of each word.

One section I find very useful is the Cognate words: a listing of all words that are derived from a particular key word. For example, agapaw agaph agaphtos and so on.

If you are looking for a Greek NT you can download one directly, or if you need a dead-tree version, I particularly like the Readers Greek NT by Goodrich and Lukasjewski.

[stephenR]

Hi Jim,

I really appreciate your offer, which is very generous indeed.
I had looked up Weir Smyth's Greek grammar on Amazon and was seriously thinking of buying it. If you are truly in the mood for giving it away, then I would very much appreciate it!
I like the description of Smyth as an exhaustive analysis of classical Greek grammar. I understand that it does not deal with Koine greek per se, but I do not regard that as a drawback. My intention is to use NT Greek as a springboard to go on to study classical Greek and tackle Thucydides and the rest of his gang.

Stephen

[JimBurke]

Hi, in case you did not get this during class. Its repeated here.

Anthony and Laila and Stephen. Please send me your street address for your books. To j dot burke at earthlink dot net

Also during class UPS dropped off a copy of Lampe's "A Patristic Greek Lexicon". I got this from eisenbraus.com They have one copy left. Its more economical than Amazon on this item. Hefty a 3" thick Oxford publication.
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