GRONT Scores

One of the most beneficial activities a Greek New Testament student can partake in to increase Greek fluency is to read texts from outside of the GNT. This can be a frustrating experience, however, if students attempt to read works that are too different from the GNT. GRONT stands for Greek Readings Outside the New Testament. The GRONT Scale is designed to determine which Greek texts, outside of the New Testament, are best for NT Greek learners to read. Thanks much to Mark Lightman, on the BGREEK email list, who invented this scoring mechanism and was kind enough to share it with the rest of us!

The Scale combines three factors*:

1. Close to the Greek of the NT.
2. Easy.
3. Good Greek.

Each of these factors is given a 1-10 rating (10 being 'best'). The three different scores are added together to get the GRONT score for a particular work. Below is a list showing the average GRONT score for several works along with links to add additional scores or works to the list. Click on the title of a work to see the detailed scoring for that work.

Title	Author	Score
Anonymous [WWW]	Josepth and Asenath	25 (1)
Wasps (JACT Adaptation)	Aristophanes (and JACT)	24 (1)
True Story [WWW]	Lucian	24 (1)
Testaments	Twelve Patriarchs	23 (1)
Romans [WWW]	Ignatius	23 (1)
On the Killing of Eratosthenes [WWW]	Lysias	21 (1)
Didache	The Twelve Apostles	21 (2)
Symposium	Plato	21 (1)
On the Passover	Melito of Sardis	21 (2)
Calliroe	Chariton	20 (1)
Daphnis and Chole	Longus	20 (1)
The Library	Apollodorus	20 (1)
Odyssey	Homer	20 (1)
Roman Antiquities	Dionysius of Halicarnassensis	19 (1)
Enchiridion	Epictetus	19 (1)
Genesis	LXX	19 (3)
Iliad	Homer	18 (2)
Wasps	Aristophanes	17 (1)
Alcestis	Euripides	16 (1)
Meditations	Marcus Aurellius	16 (1)

*There is nothing scientific or rigorous about these factors -- they are based on the opinion of the individual reader.