Be a Greek geek

February 14, 2008 in Jesus with 24 Comments

I’m in the middle of a three week New Testament Greek intensive. I’m no Greek-geek – so here are some tools to help geek it up.

greek geek

Online New Testament Greek tools:

Lionel Windsor Greek tools – Lionel is a Moore Bible Skool grad – so this is some good gear
Teknia -Bill Mounce gear
ReGreek – from the resurgence crew (posted before)
Bibleworks – some good software (costs $)
Accordance – like bibleworks, but for mac (h/t duke)
e-sword – free bible software – only basic greek – but still good!
Greek and Hebrew on iTunes U
MorphGNT – not sure what this is – but it looks interesting!
Mooreish.org – only mtc students can get on here – but looks like there’s some resources in there
Logos – looks like you need cash (h/t Phil)
Visual Greek – good memory hooks for visual learners with vocab – full booklet (pdf)
ProVoc – vocab system for MAC… looks good (h/t toby)
VocabWorks – vocab system for PC… not as sexy as ProVoc but still good. Mooreish as MTC vocab sets for download (h/t mike b)
Greek Flash Cards for mobile phones – this is brilliant. Used it on the train this morning – good for use when you don’t have a seat! (h/t reuben)
Greek Flash Cards Widget V0.2 (beta) – this is a yahoo widget – some very cool stuff on your desktop (h/t reuben)
Greek & Hebrew Reader’s Bible – an electronic copy of the greek/hebrew bibles with vocab help at bottom of page (h/t shane rogerson)

Got any other online stuff I can post here?

24 Responses to “Be a Greek geek”

Duke February 14, 2008 at 2:18 pm #

if you use a mac, as a replacement for bibleworks, there is accordance.
Hope you are having fun with greek, I am.

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Stu February 14, 2008 at 3:23 pm #

Hey man love the greek refs

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SamR February 14, 2008 at 6:42 pm #

Come and sit on the other side of the lecture theatre. That’s where all the nerds are :)

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davemiers February 14, 2008 at 8:05 pm #

thanks dukenator – i put a link to accordance.

yo sam… there aren’t ever seats there when i get in… my train gets in at 836 – and so i normally walk in to the place @ 850ish – once class has started…

you’ll have to save me a seat!

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CJ February 14, 2008 at 10:36 pm #

Three weeks! We only had one…

Which textbook are you guys using Dave?

Also – I notice your link for bibleworks says ‘costs $’. If you go to this part of their website you can download the greek (and hebrew) font package for free. I’ve found it to be great.

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davemiers February 15, 2008 at 12:13 am #

hey cj – i’m glad it’s 3 and not 1!!

we don’t use a text book. we get a visit from paul the apostle to tell us about the language…

well not really.

people are encouraged to check out some mounce b4 college… but the text we use for 1st year is in house.

we’ve currently got a 50 page reader… and i think for the rest of the year we have a 90 page reader.

it’s pretty well structured.

what text book are you guys using??

with the bibleworks – there’s some 400-500 buck program that is deluxe – i’ve downloaded some of the fonts… but if you pay cash you can get the whole enchalata.

peaceout

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CJ February 15, 2008 at 3:08 pm #

Yeah three weeks would be good (although pretty intense). It was definitely good to get cracking on the Greek before we started into the rest of our classes (which we just finished our first week of).

We’re using a book by D A Black as the text for Greek. It’s pretty good. The reason I asked was that if you were using Black as well, one of the guys here wrote a flash card type program to help with the vocab…

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Phil Gons February 20, 2008 at 7:56 am #

Don’t forget about Logos. They’ve got some great resources for learning Greek. Check out http://www.logos.com/greek/nt for a list.

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davemiers February 20, 2008 at 9:29 am #

thanks phil.

just added logos + visual greek.

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Toby April 10, 2008 at 7:38 pm #

Dave
You’ve also forgotten about provoc for mac users.
http://www.arizona-software.ch/provoc/download.html

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davemiers April 11, 2008 at 11:18 am #

4 new resources above:
provoc
vocabworks
mobile phone vocab
yahoo widget greek

thanks for passing them on guys.

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Autoversicherung September 20, 2008 at 7:36 am #

My Favorit Blog. Very thanks and best regards from Germany. Thanks

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davemiers September 20, 2008 at 10:17 pm #

thanks Autoversicherung – be sure to stop by again some time.

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davemiers April 20, 2009 at 11:27 am #

http://bible.johndyer.name/

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Dan Arthur May 7, 2009 at 2:42 pm #

Dude…I love you…thanks for the links.

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davemiers May 7, 2009 at 2:59 pm #

no. i love YOU!

hey reuben has put up some new resources: http://www.reubenland.com/

also there’s this thing called anki – it’s the bomb for memory tools!! http://anki.ichi2.net/

you new youth site is looking good.

peaceout homie.

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davemiers May 7, 2009 at 2:59 pm #

try this: http://ichi2.net/anki/

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Giorgos Alexakis July 8, 2010 at 1:19 am #

For Greek news please check nea which is one of the leading sites with news in Greece. Of course it’s written in Greek but you can translate the main news using Google translate.

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