Greek New TEstament

You can freely access some versions of the Greek New Testament (GNT) online or even download them onto your own computer!

SBL GNT

(Society of Biblical Literature Greek New Testament)

Search the SBL GNT online here or here.

Download the SBL GNT onto your computer.

Note: the links on this page for downloading the “SBLGNT Text and Apparatus” include the “apparatus” of text critical notes, indicating when manuscripts differ at various points.

THGNT

(Tyndale House Greek New Testament)

Download the Gospel of Mark as a sample copy of the THGNT.

Search the THGNT online here.

Note: we recommend against reading the Greek New Testament in an interlinear format, that is, with Greek and English stacked one on top of the other. (We should not approach the Greek text as something to be translated, but as something to be read and understood within its own language context.) To get the best usage of this website, therefore, change from the default setting “Original Language Interlinear” in the dialogue box on the right hand to simply “Original Language.”

Learn more about the recently published THGNT.

Tyndale House, located in Cambridge, UK, is an organization for Christian biblical scholarship aimed at developing Bible literary in the church.

new testament – audio, illustration & video

At different stages of learning, simply listening to the New Testament read aloud in Greek is greatly beneficial to gaining fluency. Reading the New Testament is also the goal of our learning. Several resources have been made available, a number for free, for listening to portions of the New Testament in Greek, at times accompanied by illustration or video.

Koinegreek.com

Here Dr. Ben ( Παῦλος ) Kantor offers a variety of rich resources for free:

• Audio recordings of the Gospels of Mark and Luke, as well as some other chapters out of the New Testament

• Animated and illustrated recordings of some parables of Jesus and excerpts from New Testament letters

• Video recording of the Gospel of Mark (soon to be in its entirety), produced in coordination with LUMO

Biblical language Center

The Biblical Language Centre sells excellent recordings by Dr. Randall ( Ἰωάνης ) Buth:

• Audio recordings of the Gospel of John and the three letters of John

• Audio recording of the letter of James (available in a bundle, along with recordings of Greek philosophical works)

Glossa House

Glossa house sells a helpful resource for reading Mark:

• An illustrated edition of the Gospel of Mark in Greek

Greek-English Dictionaries

Bill Mounce

Bill Mounce provides a free dictionary resource online for Koine Greek (the Greek of the period that the New Testament was written in), with a specific focused on the vocabulary found in the New Testament.

Note that this online dictionary gives glosses only, not full definitions. Use such resources wisely. While they offer aid, beware also of their shortcomings!

biblical Hebrew

Learning Koine Greek to read the New Testament is a crucial first step. But, at some point you may well find yourself yearning for more – to read the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) in their original language too! For courses in biblical Hebrew using a communicative approach, we recommend the following.

Biblical Language Center

The Biblical Language Center offers online self-directed courses and live classes conducted using video conferencing.

Institute for Biblical Languages and Translation

The Institute for Biblical Languages and Translation offers a unique, nine-month program in Israel for learning Biblical Hebrew in a communicative approach, with an immersion experience.

Biblical Aramaic

To complete your study of the biblical languages, you will want to learn Aramaic. Six chapters in Daniel and four in Ezra are written in Aramaic. With so little linguistic material it is not possible to obtain fluency in this way. An alternative approach, suggested to me first by Dr. Randall Buth, is to gain fluency in another dialect of Aramaic. Learning Classical Syriac is a great way to get into the world of biblical Aramaic. Syriac is also an amazing language to learn, of course, on its own – read more about that here (guest post by Jordash Kiffiak).

Biblical Language Center

The Biblical Language Center offers a wonderful beginner’s textbook for Classical Syriac, called, Living Christian Aramaic: Part One ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܚܝܐ. It approaches language learning in an immersive way.

Gorgias press

Though not immersive, George Kiraz’s The New Syriac Primer is still a great resource for learning to use the language communicatively. Much of the vocabulary used in earlier sections in the textbook correspond to core vocabulary necessary for conversation. And ample voice recordings accompany the short, sample sentences, which provide multiple examples of new vocabulary, illustrating important variations of their forms.

Resources

Total Physical Response (TPR) – a highly successful approach to second language acquisition invented by James J. Asher. Get the book Teaching Another Language through Actions. Read more about TPR here and here.

Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) – an acclaimed language teaching method for offering students large amounts of comprehensible input, created by Blaine Ray. Resources can be obtained here.