Looking to Sharpen Your Biblical Greek This Summer?

As college and seminary spring terms wind down, I have had several people as me about how to sharpen or keep up with their Greek this summer. There are many good resources for that, including Karen Jobes’ excellent Septuagint reader and Hendrickson’s Keep Up your Biblical Greek in Two Minutes a Day. But I would also highly recommend the FREE Greek reader that I designed along with me students in 2018: Intermediate Biblical Greek Reader: Galatians and Related Texts (co-edited with my friend Jonah Sandford)

It walks through, not just Galatians, but also the wider LXX passages quoted by Paul in Galatians, the James 2 text that has similar wording and themes, and a selection from Chrysostom’s homilies on Galatians. There is a concluding discussion of Marcion’s supposed redaction of Galatians.

I was pleased to see that this reader has been downloaded over 4000 times by readers across the globe. Below you will see the download distribution across the US, and also South America and Africa. (Not to mention Europe and Australia). It warms my heart to know that students who want to strengthen their Greek have a free way to do so.

A number of institutions have told me that they have used this textbook for official courses, independent studies, or unofficial groups that meet to improve their Greek (including Trinity College Bristol and Regent College BC).

Students, no reason to pass up a free book. Professors, please let your students know about this textbook. Happy Greek-ing!