While not a complete grammar, The Language of the New Testament has much to commend to it. Simcox’s goal in this volume was to examine where the Greek of the New Testament falls in its relationship to both classical and post-classical Greek usage and then also to classify those differences based on their origin, whether it be the common Greek of the masses, the result of linguistic interference with Hebrew and Aramaic, or even a result of the influence of the Septuagint. The book is laid out with a brief introduction to the Greek people and their language following Alexander the Great and then proceeds to survey the inflection of various parts-of-speech, discussions of syntactic and semantic issues, and concluding with a look at conjunctions, particles and other miscellaneous features of New Testament Greek.
Overall, the book is incredibly helpful, not only for interpreting the New Testament text, but also for gaining a grasp of how the Greek of the New Testament compares with that which preceded and followed it. The ability to put into historical context the state of the Greek language in the first century cannot be undervalued. And for that reason, The Language of the New Testament has retained its importance even to this day.