John 11–21: A Handbook on the Greek New Testament
John 11–21: A Handbook on the Greek New Testament
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John 11–21: A Handbook on the Greek New Testament

in Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament

by Lidija Novakovic

5 Rank Score: 5.16 from 1 reviews, 1 featured collections, and 2 user libraries
Pages 430
Publisher Baylor University Press
Published 3/24/2020
ISBN-13 9781481312141
In  John 1–10 and John 11–21 Lidija Novakovic provides a foundational analysis of the Greek text of John. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text. Novakovic’s analysis is a convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the biblical text, offers guidance for deciding between competing semantic analyses, engages important text-critical debates, and addresses questions relating to the Greek text that are frequently overlooked or ignored by standard commentaries. Beyond serving as a succinct and accessible analytic key,  John 1–10 and John 11–21 also reflect the most up-to-date advances in scholarship on Greek grammar and linguistics. These handbooks prove themselves indispensable tools for anyone committed to a deep reading of the biblical text.

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DavidH DavidH August 12, 2026
Novakovic’s two-volume Baylor Handbook is not a conventional commentary, and that is precisely why it is so useful. The volumes concentrate relentlessly on the mechanics of the Greek text—syntax, lexical questions, verbal aspect, clause relationships, textual variants and difficult constructions—while deliberately leaving authorship, historical setting, composition, structure and theology to full commentaries. John’s Greek often looks deceptively simple, and Novakovic repeatedly clarifies places where that apparent simplicity conceals significant interpretive decisions. Beside Michaels, Brown, Barrett or Klink, this is an outstanding technical companion and one of the first resources I would reach for when the precise Greek construction is disputed.