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Review of Decker’s Reading Koine Greek, Part 4

In this fourth and final part of my review of Decker’s book, I cover chapters 21-33, the Appendices, and some concluding comments. On p386, introducing participles, Decker gives the example text “I will be heading to bed right after the game. (This verbal form has a subject, so

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Reviewing Decker’s “Reading Koine Greek”, part 3

It’s not my intention to give you an exacting series of comments on every chapter, so I’ll move a little quicker now and spend more time discussing points of interest. I was interested to see that in chapter 11, p200, Decker includes in his definition of χάρις “A

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Reviewing Decker's "Reading Koine Greek", part 2

You can read the first part of this multi-part review here. In this second part of the review I offer thoughts and comments on the first 10 chapters of the text.   Decker demonstrates a great ability to write clear and communicative introductions to ideas that will strike English monoglots

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Reviewing Decker's "Reading Koine Greek", part 1

The late Rod Decker was a fine and outstanding academic, teacher, and although I never met him or had any interaction beyond his writings, I held him in considerable respect. His passing earlier this year was a loss for us, but great gain for him! I was grateful, then, that