Many serious students of the New Testament who have not attained high competence in reading Greek are aware of the exegetical value of the details of Greek sentence structures but have no reliable access to that information except what they manage to glean from laboriously examining commentaries. Greek New Testament Sentence Diagrams: English Version is a newly envisioned resource to assist such readers of the New Testament.
This work will prioritize maintaining Greek grammatical structures over attractive styling of the English wording. Its goal is not to convey every nuance of the Greek text but rather to provide an English window into the grammatical structure of the Greek sentences. Of course some of those structures are idiomatic to Greek and carry no special significance for readers of other languages. However, many of those structures are universally significant as they display, for example, details of subordination or coordination among various portions of a sentence that enhance readers’ ability to perceive the New Testament authors’ focus points and development of thought with greater clarity. The diagrams can also help struggling Greek learners unravel those difficult sentences that teachers seem to delight in assigning!