My pastor taught several folks at my church Koine Greek. Here’s the texts he recommended.
While I have the text, workbook, and Greek NT, I still need to get myself a concordance and a lexicon. — Scott Moonen
Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle-Aland 27th Ed.
Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar.
Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek Workbook.
Goodrick, et. al., Exhaustive Concordance to the Greek New Testament.
Bauer, et. al., Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature
Pastor’s comments:
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar
Scott, here is the book. Looks like the Handbook is necessary. All of the homework was in there, not the book. Also, the two together could be done by yourself with some outside help, so even if I cannot help all of the time, then you guys (practically) could teach yourselves. Great endeavor, however you do it.
Exhaustive Concordance to the Greek New Testament, The
Scott, I’m sending two more recommendations for those with the means. Of course, the latest Greek New Testament goes without saying. The best source for that is the American Bible Society, and the latest editions are the Nestle-Aland 27th edition and the United Bible Society’s 4th edition. The latter can also include a brief lexicon in the back which can be helpful.
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature
Here’s the second link. By the time that you buy the Greek text, lexicon, and concordance (all of which are necessary for study of the NT) you have spent a good deal of money and could spend just a bit more and get some bible software that will contain all of this and much more. That might be an option as well. Or, Logos (www. logos.com, I believe) Software sells individual books that are all linked together. You could get the Greek Text and the Lexicon from them and that obviously have the concordance built in with the search engine in the software. That might be a good way. It’s really any cheaper (perhaps just a bit) but might be a little more usable immediately. For wisdom’s sake, I did find that working through hard copies of books and the Greek text actually helped my knowledge of Greek. I had software by the time that I took Hebrew and it might have made me a little (a lot) more lazy. The tradeoff is speed, of course. All in what you want.
Later, in response to the question of how the NA27 and UBS4 texts differ:
I think that the texts are identical. The difference is probably in the “critical apparatus,” the references to other texts, the introduction to the text, etc. I use NA27, but UBS4 is referenced as often. NA27 might be a bit later, but no more than a few years. In the end it’s the same people that work on all of these materials, they just get paid by different people at different times and package them accordingly.
On the the topic of daily study:
I have recently been reminded by two sources - Machen (dead guy) and Bruce Metzger (smart living guy) - that the best way to maintain and grow in our Greek knowledge is simply to read the Greek new Testament daily. Metzger recommended doing this with a work such as Robertson’s Word Pictures or Vincent’s... , two classic Greek works. I never did this. But, for all of two days now I have been doing it (with software instead of above) and I think that I would recommend this to you who are interested. It keeps your brain in Greek more than if you try to record in a notebook all of the insights that you pick up (perhaps this could be in addition to the 10 min). So, for what it’s worth, I recommend what Machen and Metzger recommend. Robertson’s is available online at: Robertson's Word Pictures
You could print out the sections that you were going to read (i.e., printing out a chapter may be sufficient for a week or two). The work in book form is $30-50, I believe, and CBD would have it.
Various links
http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/jgmmingreek.htm
VocabWorks - a very helpful vocab program, with a vocab set for Mounce (2nd ed.)!