THIS UNIQUE TEXTBOOK offers an effective, student-friendly one-semester introduction to the Greek language of the New Testament.

The book focuses on reading the Greek text-1 John is read through from beginning to end-yet teaches enough syntax to enable students to deal with texts throughout the New Testament and to follow discussions in technical commentaries and other scholarly works. The grammatical explanations are exceptionally clear and understandable, are based where possible on English usage, and are always related to what has been encountered in the reading.

Though an introductory text, this book really does offer a "Course for Exegetes": lessons in exegesis of the Greek text and in use of the standard tools of exegesis, such as the Bauer lexicon, are integrated into the language course itself instead of being left entirely to future courses.

Students who go on beyond the first semester to further study of the language itself will find it easy to refine the general concepts received from The New Testament Is in Greek. Those who do not will have begun reading the Greek New Testament and will have the resources to continue doing so. Indeed, for introducing students to the reading of New Testament Greek, there is no better resource available than this one.