Valleys Raised and Mountains Made Low: Difficult Greek Verbs Made Easier, with Jon C. Laansma

<p><a href= "https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/jon-laansma/">Dr. Jon Laansma</a>, the Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Wheaton College, co-authored with Randall Gauthier, <em><a href= "https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHandy-Guide-Difficult-Irregular-Greek%2Fdp%2F0825444799%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_arp_d_product_top%3Fie%3DUTF8&data=04%7C01%7Crebecca.a.larson%40wheaton.edu%7Cc905742b6eb04132ffd408d9ab746b1e%7Cb7098c8ac6b24e8bba4c872cf5f00a20%7C0%7C0%7C637729338760711550%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Yv3kRs9XfHviaNRf4HvvKgDlkJ344%2FVA8JqalJV5D7M%3D&reserved=0"> The Handy Guide to Difficult and Irregular Greek Verbs</a></em>. He discusses how this tool, combined with healthy doses of reading practice, helps students advance more quickly to “putting roots down” in the language of the Greek NT. Once over the hump of initial learning, daily reading is efficient and doable, from which point the student can expand beyond the NT and circle back to figure out <em>why</em> some verbs have the tense stems that they do.</p>