Richard J. Goodrich

This workbook greatly helps the student who has just completed the first year of Greek using Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek, because Mounce does a great disservice to students by stopping his vocab at the 50x frequency. That means that students like me will be faced with an inadequate vocabulary for working through their third semester of Greek. Instead of suffering in the third semester, you can use this workbook over the summer to learn “vocabulary [which Mounce leaves out of BBG] show more in this period between introductory and intermediate Greek, rather than try[ing] to cram it in during the first weeks of the new school year” (8). The toughest thing for the student to do over the summer, however, is to force him/herself to memorize this vocab without a professor giving quizzes. But that’s another story. show less

I found this edition really helpful for my first read-through of the New Testament in Greek after I finished my studies. The footnoting of words that occur fewer than thirty times means that the reader can read the text without the need to refer continually to a lexicon. I still use my reader's Edition for reading and find that having the vocabulary available to me enables me to focus on parsing and concentrating on the meaning of the text. A very useful asset for anyone wanting to retain show more their Koine Greek after putting in all that effort, and wanting to benefit from reading the text in the original language. show less

Overall, like the the title says, its a great reader's edition. The italic print takes some getting used to, but the footnoted definitions are great. It should be noted that this is not the Nestle-Aland translation, but one based on the NIV, and this also lacks textual variants. This isn't a huge deal for most translations, but in depth textual analysis will require a more scholarly version.

A great Greek Bible. And it looks nice too...now if I could only read it.