Recommended
Books For Biblical Languages Study
By
Ed. F. Sanders
NT
Greek
1. Mounce's Complete Expository
Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words,*
William D. Mounce. An update to Vines work, much improved. Highly
recommended!
2. Word Study Greek-English New
Testament
(McReynolds): a new work that is excellent. If you can
only afford one Greek reference book this would be a good choice.
3. Word Studies In
The NT, W.E. Vine, an excellent tool that is use for students
without a knowledge of NT
Greek, somewhat outdated..
CAVEAT: Vine is a dispensationalist and his bias towards that
theology is stong in some articles.
4.
Thayer's Greek - English
Lexicon: an older work but is still one of the best lexicons
available for general use.
5. The New Strong's Complete
Dictionary Of Bible Words*
(Nelson Publishers): Strong's Lexicon
is in the public domain and comes in a variety of versions. It has a
numbering system that is used in a number of publications and software
packages. A version of Strong's lexicon is a 'must-have' book.
6. Liddell And Scott
Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford Press): the 'standard' lexicon for
classical Greek and very useful for NT studies.
7. The New Englishman's
Greek Concordance by George V. Wigram. This lists every place
each Greek word is used in the New Testament, regardless of how it is
translated into English.
8. The Exhaustive
Concordance to the Greek New Testament by John R. Kohlenberger
III, lists all N.T. verses containing occurrences of a particular Greek
word 'in Greek'.
9. Shorter Lexicon of the
Greek New Testament*
by F. Wilbur Gingrich. This is an
abridged version of their massive Greek Lexicon.
10. The New Greek English
Interlinear New Testament by Brown, Comfort and Douglas,
Published by Tyndale. A good interlinear is a must!
11. Word Studies in the New
Testament by Marvin R. Vincent. Analyzes Greek words and phrases
in the NT.
12. Basics of Biblical Greek*
by William D. Mounce (published by Zondervan). This book is highly
recommended.
13. New Testament Greek for
Beginners by J.Gresham Machen (published by Macmillan).
14. The Basics of New
Testament Syntax by Daniel B. Wallace published by Zondervan, an
abridged version of his larger work "Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics -
An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament"
15. New Testament Exegesis:
A Handbook for Students and Pastors*, by Gordon D. Fee, published
by Westminster John Knox.
OT Hebrew
1. Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook
for Students and Pastors*,
by Douglas Stuart, published
by Westminster John Knox.
2. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic
Lexicon of the Old Testament, William L. Holladay, published by
Eerdmans
3. Biblical Hebrew: A Text and
Workbook, Bonnie P. Kittel (ed), Yale University Press
4. Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew and English Lexicon, Francis Brown
5. Learn Biblical Hebrew, John
Dobson, (Summer Inst of Linguistics)
6. Word Studies In
The OT, W.E. Vine, an excellent tool that is use for students
without a knowledge of OT Hebrew. Somewhat outdated.
CAVEAT: Vine is a dispensationalist and his bias towards that
theology is stong in some articles.
(more
OT works to be added)
Copies of these books can
be found at almost any Christian book store or distributor. Used copies
can sometimes be found on ebay.com or amazon.com at a reasonable
price. Also try our used
book search engine.
*
indicates most highly
recommended
Credits: Some of the
information above from Corey Keatings website: www.ntgreek.org/books/refbook.htm.
This is an excellent source for information on NT Greek and study
resources.