Reading Koine Greek
An Introduction and Integrated Workbook
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Welcome, students!
At Baker Academic’s Textbook eSources for Reading Koine Greek, you will find several study aids designed to help you in your Greek course. These aids include audio files and flash cards.
For most chapters, there are two audio files, a set of vocabulary flash cards, and a separate set of parsing flash cards.
Audio files The audio files (MP3s) cover readings and vocabulary. They are labeled according to their section in each chapter. For example, “29 20” equals chapter 29, paragraph 20. There are also 30 audio files covering the paradigms in Appendix A. The audio files are organized by chapter here.
Flash cards Under the chapter links below, you will find the vocabulary flash cards. These cards also feature audio. Below the chapters (or by clicking “Themes”) you will find the parsing flash cards, listed by chapter. You can also access the vocabulary and parsing flash cards via our Quizlet page, or use these flash cards via the Quizlet app on Apple and Android devices.
Note from the Author
Please bear in mind that since words have meaning only in context, vocabulary flash cards and parsing flash cards, which provide no contexts, are necessarily artificial exercises aimed only at helping students build up mental repertoires of possibilities to be tried out when reading actual texts. Not every meaning or parsing on a flash card will be an actual possibility in any given concrete context, and not every possible meaning or parsing for a given form necessarily appears on its flash card. In the parsing flash cards, the aim is to learn to recognize possibilities based on form alone without context. As a result (to note one set of examples that may startle some Greek instructors), every first aorist passive form in theta and every second aorist passive form in eta is parsed as both passive and middle, since (as Reading Koine Greek explains) some words in these forms either sometimes or always convey middle rather than passive meaning. No claim is implied that every such form has middle force in actual usage in the literature.
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