I am thankful to announce that all the videos teaching the first semester of Biblical Greek are now online! The main textbook used is William Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek. Either the 3rd or the 4th edition of that text works well. (I prefer some features of the 3rd and some other features of the 4th edition; overall, they are similar enough that either one will work with the class.) The entire playlist is on YouTube, and the videos are also being put up at Faithsaves.net and on Rumble. We thank God for the work that has been done. Lord willing, the second semester videos will also all be made available. If you are interested in helping to edit videos and so help train spiritual leaders for the kingdom of God, or you know someone who can help with this ministry, please contact me. You can also pray for us. Learning the Biblical languages is very valuable, and it is our prayer and hope that these videos will not only help those who have physical teachers, but also enable God’s people to learn Greek all around the world, even when they who do not have the privilege of a physical teacher. A physical teacher is very helpful–and, Lord willing, I will offer the class personally again in the future, as I have offered it in the past–but I believe a dedicated student can teach himself Greek with the textbooks and answer keys here, although it is not as easy to do as it is if one has a professor to help. I also want these videos to help people learn Biblical Greek from a Biblical, separatist, militant Baptist position, instead of from the point of non-separatist evangelicalism–the doctrinal position of Bill Mounce, who is a great Greek teacher, but not so great in his doctrine and practice. Furthermore, we use the Textus Receptus and support the King James Version in the class, rather than utilizing modern Bible versions and their inferior Greek text, the Nestle-Aland.
If you want to help people get Biblical, Baptist, separatist training in the Biblical languages and theology, please feel free to recommend and send links about my class to the various websites where online Greek classes are compared and offered. I don’t have time to look into all of those, but the more places that link to it, the better. I would be fine if evangelicals learn Greek from someone with Biblical Baptist convictions and get moved towards that position. Thanks!
–TDR
Thanks for the videos! I plan to start learning Greek next year, and you guys have been a major influence in pushing me that direction. As I’ve been researching in preparation for next year, I found a Presbyterian publishing house that has made a “reader’s edition” of the Greek Received text. Perhaps something to add to your list of suggested materials? I put the link in the “website” box since I think some websites assume it’s spam if you include a link in a comment. The publishing house is called “Grange Press”. for anyone interested. They also sell split leaf psalters (out of stock).
Dear Adam,
Thanks for mentioning the Reader’s edition of the TR. I think it is a useful resource to help people get reading the Greek NT. I would not want students in a 1st year Greek class (or any Greek class) to be using it as their class text, as it gives away too much of the parsing that students need to learn without being able to just look in the margin and get the answer. But for someone who is not in a class, or is reading the Greek NT on his own in conjunction with or outside of a class, I think it is a very helpful resource. I don’t know how durable it is, but it looks like it will stand being regularly read.
Eucharisto se (thank you).