a syntax guide for readers of the greek new testament -- a book review

Charles Lee Irons has given us a masterful aide in reading through the Greek New Testament in his A Syntax Guide for Readers of the Greek New Testament.  I've been reading through the Greek New Testament devotionally, as well as for sermon preparation, for more than a decade.  And Irons has brought together a number of regularly-consulted resources to produce a simple, durable volume that can help students, pastors, and other readers gain facility with the language -- with an eye toward regular reading of the Greek New Testament.

A Syntax Guide for Readers of the Greek New Testament allows readers to interact with the Greek text with minimal interruption and maximum understanding.  In focusing specifically upon syntax, this Guide takes its place among other resources as a time-saving new tool that builds on, rather than replaces, what already exists.  In the author's own words, it "picks up where these other tools leave off, presupposes their use, and moves on to more complex issues of syntax, translation, some textual criticism, and limited exegesis" (page 7).

This is a book that no pastor, student, or teacher should be without.

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I received a free copy of this book from Kregel Publications in exchange for my honest review here.