Read the original languages. Think deeply with the authors. Renew your love for Scripture.

Biblical Mastery Academy helps Christians who love Scripture read and study the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament. Wherever you're starting from, the journey is achievable.

What are you missing in translation?

A free extract from Reclaiming New Testament Greek.

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Every serious Bible student hits a ceiling

Working with Scripture in translation means reading what others say the text says. The translations are faithful and the commentaries are valuable, but eventually they stop being enough.

You sit down with a passage you have been wrestling with. You open three commentaries. Two of them disagree on a Greek construction. The third doesn't address it at all. You close them knowing no more than when you opened them. That's what I refer to as the ceiling.

It is not a failure of effort or devotion. It is the structural consequence of reading Scripture in a language other than the one in which God inspired it. Biblical Mastery Academy is the path through it.

From the alphabet to the entire Greek New Testament

The Greek success path: eighteen levels across three stages, from acquisition through competency to mastery
Eighteen levels across three stages. Stage 1 builds acquisition. Stage 2 develops competency. Stage 3 produces mastery.

Greek is a journey, and every journey, no matter how long, is walked the same way: one step at a time. The elephant reminds us of this. The success path is built on exactly this logic.

Small, consistent steps.

Learning Greek can feel a bit like eating an elephant. That's why we talk about going in small, consistent steps. The only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Bite by bite, you learn Greek and you read Scripture as it was inspired.

I had to work for every step

Darryl Burling

Greek did not come naturally to me. I learned it in seminary, where the work was aimed at exegesis rather than reading, and I watched most of my classmates lose theirs within a few years of finishing.

What I wanted was to read what Paul wrote rather than what someone says Paul wrote, to weigh the grammatical arguments in a commentary myself, and to build my theology on the text. Getting there took small, consistent steps over a long time.

So I built what I had needed. Every feature exists because a real learner needed it: the grammar, the exercises, the success path, the Consistency Score. All of it made from the inside, for hard-working Christians who love Scripture enough to take those steps.

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What members say

I learned Greek in seminary and found it so hard that every day after class, I'd go back to my room and cry, and tell the Lord that I couldn't do this. Then I discovered Biblical Mastery Academy and now I just finished beginning Greek and I love Greek!

Noel Greek Mastery Member

As a busy homeschool mom of four, if I can do this, anyone can.

Meg Greek Mastery Member

I can take the program at my own pace without worrying to get to class at an exact time or else I'll lose the day of learning. It's better this way for busy folks.

Edwin Greek Mastery Member

Find where you would start

The quiz asks what you have studied before and what you want to do with it, then points you at the right first step. It takes two minutes.