Introducing A Beginning Greek Grammar By Fredrick J. Long

KAIROƩ:

A Beginning Greek Grammar

 

Ephesians 5:16

Buying the Opportunity

 

ἐξαγοραζόμενοι τὸν καιρόν

by Fredrick J. Long, Ph.D.

Bethel College, IN

© 2004

 Le Semeur (The Sower) by Jean-François Millet 

KAIROƩ: A Beginning Greek Grammar Ephesians 5:16 Buying the Opportunity ἐξαγοραζόμενοι τὸν καιρόν by Fredrick J. Long, Ph.D. Bethel College, IN © 2004 Preface to the Workbook

Fredrick J. Long, Workbook for Kairos: A Beginning Greek Grammar (Mishawaka, IN.: Fredrick J. Long, 2005), i.

 As you prepare to use this Workbook, I would like you to know that I have joyfully labored to make it the most effective possible in conjunction with KAIROƩ: A Beginning Greek Grammar. The Workbook for KAIROƩ has been carefully designed. You will be translating New Testament verses and paragraphs as quickly as possible in order to begin reaping the benefits of your labor. Let me briefly explain about the Workbook for KAIROƩ. ■ 

The chapter exercises were made that would exercise the vocabulary presented in each particular chapter. ■ 

New Testament verses were sought out that would appropriately exercise the vocabulary and grammar presented in each chapter. ■

 These verses are used as soon as possible to encourage students. ■ 

The Workbook contains actual idioms that were painstakingly ferreted out from the Greek NT, so that, even before translating Biblical verses and paragraphs, you will be working with actual Biblical thoughts and phrases. ■ 

Some sentences for translation exercises are also taken from the Septuagint (LXX), the Greek translation of the Old Testament. This is valuable for many reasons, not least of which is the fact the NT writers often allude to or quote from the LXX. Indeed, the influence of the LXX translation on the NT writers is very great. ■ 

Although the student will be formally presented with every word occurring 50 times or more, in actuality a larger vocabulary is learned, because the exercises contain many words that are not formally presented. The meaning of these “extra” words is given at the end of the sentence in parentheses. ■ 

More exercises are included than can be completed in any given week, so that students will have fresh sentences to review before the tests. Also, these numerous exercises provide instructors ample material to create quizzes and tests. ■ 

The textbook exercises for each chapter contain six sections: - Overview is mainly for the student and not necessarily formally to be assigned. It asks straightforward questions to make sure the student understands what are the main things to be learned in each chapter. If the student can answer these questions, then the core material has been learned. - Vocabulary is a series of crossword puzzles in Greek for each Chapter; additionally, old vocabulary is progressively reviewed in this process. - Review reviews the grammar of the previous chapter by providing further translation exercises, parsing of verbs, etc. This will keep the student reviewing; learning a language is a cumulative exercise. - Focus is designed to focus on the current grammar presented in the current chapter. The purpose of this section is to exercise specific points of grammar intentionally, rather than for the student to see a particular point of grammar only a few times in sentences. - Sentences are carefully chosen scriptures to exercise the student over all the grammar up to that chapter. The most current grammar, however, is given a more gracious showing. - Reading gives the students an opportunity to read New Testament Greek within a larger context. Reading and interpreting the New Testament in context is the ultimate goal of KAIROƩ. Paragraph reading helps students to begin to see nuances of word order, the importance of conjunctions, and other features of discourses as a whole (e.g., repetitions). ■ 

Lastly, the Workbook contains deductive and inductive features: - Certain exercises drill a very particular point of Greek grammar, for example, “Demonstrative pronouns” or “These sentences contain 2nd Aorist verbs”, etc. - Words that have not been covered and yet whose meaning can be derived from its component Greek stems are sometimes left for the student to figure out. This is truer in the latter half of the book. - Sometimes a grammatical construction that is covered in a future chapter is briefly encountered in the immediately preceding exercises. This helps the student develop an intuitive grasp of the language by giving them some handle on a new grammatical construction even before they actually come to it in the Grammar later. Two final comments are in order for you, the Student. First, be sure to memorize the vocabulary words for a particular chapter before doing the exercises in the Workbook. If you do, then the exercises will reinforce your vocabulary. Second, learning Greek is a cumulative process. Daily work is required. It is not possible to “cram in” the material once a week. So, it is best to maintain a healthy daily diet of NT Greek. Bon appetite! Fredrick Long, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of New Testament Bethel College, IN Exercises Index Vocabulary: 20 Times or More

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Appendices

Fredrick J. Long, Workbook for Kairos: A Beginning Greek Grammar (Mishawaka, IN.: Fredrick J. Long, 2005), iii. 28 Appendices Vocabulary: 20 Times or More

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