The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek: Grammar, Syntax, and Diagramming (The Handy Guide Series) (Greek Edition)

Whether you're learning biblical Greek or using it, this is the reference tool to keep on hand. In a quick visual layout, it supplements textbooks to gives you immediate access to:

first-year Greek grammar
second-year Greek syntax
step-by-step phrase diagramming

Easy to carry and easy to use, The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek crystalizes the information you need to know for classes or enables you to develop a sermon or lesson outline from the Greek New Testament faster than you could from an English translation.

Customer Reviews:

Not on my shelf. On my desk, right beside the coffee and the Greek NT

By John Douglass Hibbard - January 2, 2013

Face it: if you are not using your Koine Greek skills every day and twice on Sunday, they are getting rusty and you need help. The help you need is not a larger print NASB or ESV, either. It's to get the Greek back. Or to learn it in the first place, especially if you are a Christian leader. After all, if one wants to know America's Founding Documents, one still reads it in the swooped script of the Declaration of Independence and not just in text message-speak.

So, how do you get it back? How do you get it in the first place? If you are pounding through acquiring the Greek in the first place, you know that sometimes a textbook is just not as clear as you'd like. Or that one text explains material in one order, and another is different. Or just that Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics is so big that you cannot find what you need quickly.

Well, help is at hand, and it is in the form of The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek by Douglas S. Huffman. In 106... read more

Review and Refresh Your Biblical Greek

By David Gunner Gundersen - December 14, 2012

"If you don't use it, you lose it." Most Greek teachers have brandished some version of this educational proverb in the relentless battle for student motivation. The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek provides a concise summary of grammar, syntax, and diagramming, adding a well-crafted weapon to the arsenal. This power-packed book will motivate and empower students, pastors, and teachers to refresh our memories, concretize our learning, and sharpen our interpretive tools.

At 112 pages and a handy size that purposefully matches the traditional Nestle-Aland and UBS texts, this book fills a gap on the resource shelf of biblical Greek. It would feel at home in a student's backpack, a pastor's study, or a professor's office. Here's why:

1. Accessible. The writing is clear, the charts are smooth, and difficult concepts are reduced to their simplest terms without being reductionist or simplistic. Of course, accessibility is defined by the target audience, and Huffman is... read more

Good Material, Difficult Layout

By spporter - January 12, 2013

The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek is not intended for beginner-level Greek learners, but as clearly stated in the introduction, for second-year or beyond Greek students. The book basically lays out "handy" charts for grammatical and usage references, i.e. syntax, conjugation, phrase diagramming, etc.

Huffman has composed a basic but accessible reference book that would be a great accompaniment to a full-sized textbook, but I think it would also be a useful tool for anyone studying Greek whether in school or out. I found his inclusion of a Select Bibliography in Greek studies particular helpful in finding other works that could be used alongside the handbook.

All that said, I do have some critiques in terms of layout that might be addressed in future editions:

There's very little that separates chapters and sections. The entire book is printed in orange and black. So if you're hoping to quickly turn to and recognize a section that you're... read more