Professor Rod Decker, who teaches New Testament and Greek at Baptist Bible Seminary recently announced over at his blog that he will soon be publishing a first-year Greek grammar entitled Learning Koine Greek. Tentatively scheduled for a 2014 release, Dr. Decker says he has been working on LKG for the last four years. Prof Decker is no stranger to the world of Koine Greek. He has published a monograph on Mark in the “Studies in Biblical Greek” series called Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark with Reference to Verbal Aspect, Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers, and a forthcoming handbook on Mark’s Gospel in the “Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament.” He also writes quite a bit on Greek grammar on his blog. I look forward to his contribution to Greek language study and will most certainly be picking up a copy of LKG once it is released.
This is great news! Can’t wait to read it. His Koine Greek Reader is a great resource.
I have only flipped through it, but my Greek prof says it was quite good!
It really covers it all, and for less than $20! I especially like that it has LXX, Apostolic Fathers, and of course lots of NT.
I especially like this sentence–”Tentatively scheduled for a 2014 release, Dr. Decker says he has been working on LKG for the last four years”–though technically I don’t think anyone has actually promised to release Rod when his grammar is published.
My Greek I class was a Guinea pig class for this resource. This is an amazing tool. I have been waiting eagerly for the finished product so I can teach my students!