This verse by verse analysis of unusual forms and grammatical and exegetical difficulties in the Greek New Testament is expanded and revised, improving on the acclaimed original version.

The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament is ideal for students and for busy pastors whose knowledge of Greek grammar is limited or rusty but who want to read the Greek New Testament. It not only simplifies reading the text of the Greek New Testament but also gives the reader a wealth of tools that a lexicon and grammar alone cannot provide. For those with a basic knowledge of first-year Greek grammar and vocabulary, this completely revised and greatly expanded edition of the highly successful Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament (1982) makes reading the Greek New Testament faster, easier, and more effective. Going through the New Testament verse by verse, The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament provides help in three areas: Lexical - It identifies unusual and uncommon word forms that in the past had to be looked up in a lexicon, as well as their meaning, based on BAGD and other standard lexicons. Grammatical - It provides grammatical insights from the leading Greek grammars, including Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics.

Exegetical - As the title of this revised and expanded edition indicates, The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament also provides the reader with a wealth of exegetical insights and nuances, as well as references to a wide range of commentaries, monographs, journal articles, historical works, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and so forth.

The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament is ideal for students and for busy pastors whose knowledge of Greek grammar is limited or rusty but who want to read the Greek New Testament. It not only simplifies reading the text of the Greek New Testament but also gives the reader a wealth of tools that a lexicon and grammar alone cannot provide. For those with a basic knowledge of first-year Greek grammar and vocabulary, this completely revised and greatly expanded edition of the highly successful Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament (1982) makes reading the Greek New Testament faster, easier, and more effective. Going through the New Testament verse by verse, The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament provides help in three areas: Lexical - It identifies unusual and uncommon word forms that in the past had to be looked up in a lexicon, as well as their meaning, based on BAGD and other standard lexicons. Grammatical - It provides grammatical insights from the leading Greek grammars, including Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. Exegetical - As the title of this revised and expanded edition indicates, The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament also provides the reader with a wealth of exegetical insights and nuances, as well as references to a wide range of commentaries, monographs, journal articles, historical works, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and so forth.

Cleon L. Rogers Jr., now retired, was director of the Freie Theologische Akademie in Giessen, Germany. He is the author of The Topical Josephus and contributor to the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis.;Cleon L. Rogers III is lecturer in biblical and exegetical studies at the New Life Seminary in Altenkirchen, Germany, and at the Bible Seminary in Bonn, Germany.

1998-12-09 Helpful to the average user of the Greek New Testament.

This is an English version of Fritz Rienecker's "Sprachlicher Schluessel zum Griechischen Neuen Testament." It claims to be a translation of Rienecker with revised and more current references for the English-speaking user. Actually, Rogers goes beyond that to change Rienecker's frequent insightful comments on the meaning of the text to give a very Baptist interpretation of the text. This is particularly evident in passges which deal with baptism and the Lord's Supper. The information on the grammar and parsing of words in the Greek text are the same as Rienecker's, and very helpful to the average reader of the Greek New Testament. Rogers is to be commended for making Rienecker's helps for students of Greek available in English, but anyone who can use the German language would be better served by procurring a copy of Rienecker's orginal work. Check Amazon.de to see if it is still available there, or shop the net for dealers in used theological books. If you do use Roger's "revision" be aware that the theological comments are not what the preface portrays them to be. Also check a similar work in English by Grosvenor and Zerwick called "Analysis of the Greek New Testament." The latter work is similar, but is a bit more extensive. It is thicker and a bit more expensive.