Greek Reading List

I have been trying to do more Greek reading of late and I came across this list over at the Dunelm Road blog. The list is by Daniel Wallace and was originally posted by Ben Blackwell^[1] here.. The order of the list is supposed to go form easiest to hardest while being grouped in about 10 chapter increments.

Theoretically one could read the whole New Testament in a month but for my studies right now that seems a little too ambitious. I do think I will try to start with a chapter a day and increase over time.

I find it best to use the Zondervan Greek Reader for when I am just reading Greek. I find by using the reader it forces me to think through words I should know but have forgotten. For example, if you come across a word that occurs more than 30x it will not be listed in the footnotes. If I were not using a reader I would have a much quicker trigger looking up a word that I already know. I prefer this reader over UBS Greek NT Reader’s Edition for a couple reasons:

1. No parsing. I find this to be an advantage because it forces me to work on my parsing on vocabulary I do not know. In the UBS reader it parses both difficult words and every word that occurs 30x or less.
2. Size. The Zondervan reader is roughly over half the size of the UBS Reader, which makes it much easier to carry around from place to place.

If anyone is interested in forming a Greek reading plan with me just contact me via twitter (@renshaw330) or email ([email protected]). This would mostly be for accountability purposes because it is so easy to stray from reading the original languages daily.

Here is the list:

1. John 1–11
2. John 12–21
3. 1 John; 2 John; 3 John; Philemon
4. Mark 1–8
5. Mark 9–16
6. Matthew 1–10
7. Matthew 11–20
8. Matthew 21–28
9. Revelation 1–11
10. Revelation 12–22
11. 1 Thessalonians; 2 Thessalonians
12. Ephesians; Colossians
13. Philippians; Romans 1–8
14. Romans 9–16
15. 1 Corinthians 1–10
16. 1 Corinthians 11–16
17. Galatians; James
18. 1 Peter; 1 Timothy
19. 2 Timothy; Titus
20. Jude; 2 Peter
21. 2 Corinthians 1–7
22. 2 Corinthians 8–13
23. Luke 1–8
24. Luke 9–16
25. Luke 17–24
26. Acts 1–10
27. Acts 11–19
28. Acts 20–28
29. Hebrews 1–7
30. Hebrews 8–13

Download the PDF of the list here.

Tavis Bohlinger has several good posts on practicing greek like a violin player. You can find his introductory post here.

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1. You can follow him on twitter at @bencblackwell  ↩

Greek Syntax Searching in Accordance

I just came across a post on Rod Decker’s NT Resources site that links to a PDF of a summary of Greek syntax searching in Accordance. I am still figuring out all the research capabilities of Accordance and this is proving to be extremely helpful. He says:

I’ve compiled the material in the pdf linked below from the Accordance Forums for easier reference. The Syntax module in Accordance is not yet complete (they are finished for Matt-Acts) and the documentation in the Help files are all OT/Hebrew oriented. The NT editor, however, has posted a number of very helpful tutorials in the Accordance forums.

Here is the link to the site.

Here is a link to the PDF.