News of Koine Greek And Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek

"Ἡ ἀγάπη οὐδέποτε πίπτει· εἴτε δὲ προφητεῖαι καταργηθήσονται· εἴτε γλῶσσαι παύσονται· εἴτε γνῶσις καταργηθήσεται."(1 Cor 13:8)
Is the verb “Παύσονται” a future tense middle voice verb or a middle deponent? Is there any difference in meaning?

Does anyone have any idea where I can hear/follow along in Greek of the reading of 1st John? I have Bill Mounce reading 1st John 1:5 - 2:5 but would like to follow along with the rest of the book.
Thanks!

Duane

Mounce's BBG is far and away the most popular textbook in seminaries today. And while I used it successfully in my independent studies of Greek, the deeper I go into my continuing studies of the language the more I realize that BBG is not able to adequately prepare students to really dig into Greek.

Obviously, as the title and the author's rationale statement clearly state, the textbook is not meant to give a student everything ...

Hi list

I was wondering if there is an guidance on use of came v went

Mounces exercise 22 warm up a

ἦλθεν πρὀς τὀν Ἰησοῦν
"He/she/it came to Jesus" or "He/she/it" went to Jesus?

The preposition προς is in the accusative which is motion towards, the verb is aorist so I would have thought the correct translation is 'came', but online tools translate it went.

What am I missing here?

By way of a background, I passed Greek 3 (Attic) about seven years ago; over the last several months, after deciding to bring my Greek back up to speed, I've worked my way through Mounce's grammar and workbook. Koine is very hard, but easier than Attic! After getting through Mounce, I picked up Rodney Decker's Koine Greek Reader, along with Black's intermediate grammar and the short New Testament lexicon from the University of Chicago Press. ...

I have a first edition of Mounce's BBG (left over from my seminary days). I see that it's up to third edition now on Amazon. Is it worth the $31 to upgrade, now that I'm getting back into Greek again?

Thanks!

One of the example sentances for chapter 6 is:

εγω γινωσκω ὁτι το εργον τετελεσται

Translated: I know that/because the work is finished.

Isn't the word 'εγω' at the beginning redundant?
Could one not simply say: γινωσκω ὁτι το εργον τετελεσται

Also later he has:

αυτοι τον θεον οψονται

Couldn't you simply write: θεον οψοντα.

Why is 'αυτοι τον' necessary?

Mounce mentions that memorizing the articles helps determine the case endings. So why memorize the endings for all three declensions? Is it only for anarthrous nouns?

Hi, Folks,

I want to bounce with Mounce, but it's the second edition of BBG and workbook that I have and the teknia website only gives the answer key to the 3rd ed. now. Does anyone still have the pdf of the 2nd ed. answer key tucked away in a hard drive somewhere? I'd be very grateful for a copy!

Alternatively, is the 3rd ed. so superior that I should just get it and suffer ...

Hi guys. I need some help please: I was checking out a web site, and one of it's 'claims' is:

''Prior to the twentieth century scholars had never come across any document that was written in the same type of Greek as the Bible. So they assumed the Bible was written in a special language; a language made specifically and only for the Bible itself. But at the turn of the twentieth century, so many ...