Musings of a Snickerdoodle

Greek for Everyone by A. Chadwick Thornhill presents a unique book on New Testament Greek.  His  stated goal is to have those reading this book learn  "Greek in order to become better students of the Scripture rather than students of Greek."  The aim of the book is not to  "gain reading proficiency but rather are working to establish the ability to use various tools to study the text in Greek".    And I think that Thornhill accomplishes his goals with this book, he   takes you through a basic (though it still seems quite thorough) overview of the various parts of Greek so that you may then use lexicons, parsing guides, and other Greek tools in your Bible study without having to become an expert Greek scholar.  Thornhill starts out by explaining that one of the most important things to do in acquiring a knowledge of Koine Greek that is useful to Bible study is to remember to keep looking for the 'big picture' in a text/pas...