The beginning Greek student soon faces a vexing dilemma: a myriad of vocabulary words to learn and little time to learn them. On of the century's leading Greek scholars offers a solid solution by organizing Greek words according to their frequency of appearance in the New Testament, Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek helps students maximize their study time by concentrating on the words that appear most often in the Greek New Testament.

This venerable resource, which has served beginning language students for over fifty years, is divided into two parts. Part 1 lists New Testament words according to their frequency of occurrence. "The usefulness of such lists is obvious," writes Metzger. "By consulting them the beginner will not, so to speak, waste his time memorizing words that occur only rarely in the New Testament. He can be assured that when he has learned, say, the first 513 words in the list he then knows all of the words (other than proper names) that occur at least 25 times in the New Testament."

The second part of Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek features another helpful list, grouping Greek words according to their root. Also included are appendixes that provide tolls for learning Greek prepositions and the principal parts of verbs.