Koine Greek Resources

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I really want to study koine Greek and hopefully learn the language of the early church and New Testament. I just want to get a new perspective of the New Testament. Because I had some help on Acts 9:31, it said ekklesia Kataholos, which means church throughout the whole, but It certainly looks and sounds like Catholic Church.

So are there are any books or websites that could help me guide my journey? Because I looked at multiple books, but they were written by multiple Protestants and evangelicals and I don’t know if they’re biased or not.
 
B-Greek is a website specializing in Biblical Greek. Helpfully, there’s a beginners’ forum, where you can ask questions and, if you’re lucky, you’ll get them answered by experts. I don’t think you’ll find any difference between Catholics, Protestants, or atheists, as far as teaching the Greek language is concerned.

http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/index.php
 
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Hi Aaron!

Thanks for posting! I’m attempting to learn Koine (not easy). I use Bill Mounce;s “Greek for the Rest of Us” learning tools. I recommend his textbook and DVD lectures (available from Amazon). Not very pricey.
 
I agree that there is no good Catholic resource but I don’t think it matters.

Check out the protestant http://dailydoseofgreek.com/
If you want something free. There are also lots of links to other free resources.
 
This is a free grammar book. It doesn’t matter if it is written by a protestant as grammar deals with how a language is structured and not how to interpret words and sentences. The Textkit Book Collection - Textkit Greek and Latin Forums

Koine Greek is a very difficult language to learn when it comes to grammar. There is an expression in Swedish “Det är rena rama grekiskan!” which can be translated as “It is just plain/pure Greek!” with the meaning “It is impossible to understand!”. Hard to learn but great when finally being able to read (and understand) the New Testament in the language it was written in.

The Gospel of St John is very common to start with as the writer is very repetitive when using words. Just read the prologue and you’ll see what I mean or why not listen to it?

The Youtube channel “Reading the Bible in Greek with Maria” was recommended to me, by a university teacher, as she reads slowly with “School Greek pronunciation”.
 
Two very useful online resources, freely downloadable

• An NT word list compiled by Mark V. Hoffman of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, PA.

All 311 words occurring 50 or more times in the NT. These words account for close to 80 percent of the entire text of the Greek NT. Two separate downloads, the words listed in order of frequency and in alphabetical order.


• The Online Greek Textbook: a Koine textbook for beginners in 70 short chapters, posted by the author, Shirley Rollinson, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM

Note: the author uses the exercises as homework for her students, and for that reason she doesn’t make the answers publicly available on the internet.

http://www.drshirley.org/greek/textbook02/contents.html
 
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