John (Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament | EGGNT)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
As students and ministers of God's Word, you know that the closer you can get to the original texts, the better you can preach, teach, and understand the Bible. The Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament (EGGNT) is written and researched to provide all the necessary information for understanding the Greek text. Each volume also includes homiletical helps and suggestions for further study. The EGGNT was written to serve a wide variety of readers. If you are consulting the Greek text for the first time you will appreciate the assistance with vocabulary, parsing, and translation. If you have some experience in Greek you may want to skip or skim these sections and focus attention on the discussions of grammar. More advanced students may choose to pursue the topics, references, and technical works under "For Further Study." Pastors will enjoy the transitions from grammatical analysis to sermon outline. Teachers will appreciate having a resource that frees them to focus on exegetical details and theological matters. Many of the other reference tools in your digital library will be enhanced with the EGGNT alongside them. Having a Bible, the EGGNT, and a Greek interlinear open side-by-side can make it easy to consult a passage in English and see the text in Greek with each word transliterated and translated. The EGGNT takes you deeper into the original text, pointing out details and nuances that might otherwise be overlooked. Furthermore, the EGGNT makes "Homiletical Suggestions," nuggets of gold for your preaching and teaching. The EGGNT will make interpreting James easier, while also adding scholarship and depth to your studies of God’s Word. This is especially helpful for those who are hard-pressed for time and yet want to preach or teach with accuracy and authority. About the Author Murray J. Harris is professor emeritus of New Testament Exegesis and Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and former warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. Check out a sample by clicking on the yellow Sample button underneath the book cover image.
Top Highlights
“Since John is dependent on the OT for his formative ideas, we should assume that his Logos concept is informed mainly by OT teaching concerning ‘the word of the Lord’ as God’s agent in creation (Ps 33:6), in revelation (Jer 1:4–5, 9), and in salvation (Ezek 37:4–6). John proceeds to emphasize precisely these three spheres as the areas in which the Logos is mediator. He created the universe (1:3, 10), he personally and perfectly revealed the Father (1:4–5, 9, 14, 18), and he redeemed humankind (1:12, 16).” (Page 18)
“The sense is not ‘From the very beginning,’ which would be ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς (1 John 1:1; 3:8). ‘In the beginning’ means in effect ‘before the world was created’ (GNB; cf. John 17:5, 24; Eph 1:4).” (Page 18)
“‘At the very beginning of creation and time, the Word as the perfect expression of God the Father had already always existed, and this Word was in active communion with God, and this Word inherently shared the same nature as God.’” (Page 20)
“The Logos became what he was not (σάρξ) without ceasing to be what he was (θεός, v. 1).” (Page 35)
“ἦν (not ἐγένετο) John implies the eternal preexistence of the Logos. Ἦν therefore signifies timeless existence:” (Page 18)
- Title: John
- Author: Murray J. Harris
- Series: Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 352
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781430080633, 9781433687969, 1433687968, 1430080639
- Resource ID: LLS:WS_80444B5F99FB4F82836577202ACE1601
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:24:11Z
Reviews
3 ratings
JJ Miller
3/13/2024
For the Greek student with a good grasp of the basics. This guide on John is separated into sectoons or pericopes and then, section by section, provides analyses of key words, syntax, and grammar along with exegetical insights. Very useful. The reader should know that not every issue will be discussed because of obvious restrictions and purpose. The reader will find useful the section, “For Further Study”, as well as “Homiletical Suggestions” that will help one see the possible ways for delivery based on the authors insights into the Greek Text. When the reader differs, however, these reflections may not prove as helpful.
Stefan Christian Mocanu Jensen
8/3/2023
I am disappointed with this vol. from the series. It claims to delve into grammar, but I find it incredibly disheartening that the author, Murray J. Harris, completely avoids addressing Participles in John. He only analyzes the Participle but does not specify its category. I mean i know the parsing but i want to know what category would fit in John. But this Vol does not do that. Sad.
Forrest Cole
11/9/2021
