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Reading biblical Greek
shouldn't just be the
work of pastors and
scholars.
Having your own knowledge of the word of God is an integral part of your walk with Christ.
Without it, you’re relying on scholars and pastors to interpret the word for you, meaning you know the scriptures second-hand.
With the Mastery Membership, you can go not only learn to read the New Testament in Greek, but you will delve deeper into the word of God than you ever have before.
The results will transform you forever!
Dr. Darryl Burling
Founder
Biblical Mastery Academy
Gain the skills and knowledge to read the whole Greek New Testament without relying on external tools.
Imagine this:
On a warm, sunny morning, you sit down to read your Greek New Testament with a cup of coffee (or tea if you prefer…).
No translations, no interlinears, no lexicons, and without dependency on Logos Bible Software, or some other tool.
It’s just you and your Greek New Testament – and you’re able to read and understand it!
As you think back a few years to where you are right now, you realize that you feel a far deeper connection to the scriptures, to Christ, to the early church and the authors of scripture, and to Christ than you even imagined was possible before you started.
What once seemed so distant by comparison is now alive in your hand and you’re able to read it for yourself, interact with serious biblical scholarship, and analyze biblical thinking in ways you never imagined!
Your faith in, and love for Christ will expand beyond the troubles of today
Learning to read the scriptures in Greek is an investment in knowing the Lord more fully, and as a result, grow in your love for Christ, making the significance of the world’s troubles to fade just a little.
As a you read the language of the New Testament, you are able to behold Christ through a fresh, first century perspective while gaining greater insight into what the Lord has revealed about Himself, His redemptive plan, creation, mankind, sin, believers…
…in short – everything!
Ultimately, you will feel that you are able to better see the world through God’s eyes, and in doing so, you will grow in your walk with the Lord.
As well as that…
Your ministry will be greatly strengthened by your knowledge of Greek!
Reading Greek paves the way for faithful service to God, because your direct knowledge of scripture drives everything you do.
This is why members send in testimonials like this:
Joe Pieretti
Greek Mastery Member
Your personal ministry might be focused in the church, in the home, or on the mission field.. (Including the mission field in your own hometown!)
Wherever and however you serve, knowing Greek will help you be more effective, because your daily interaction with the word shapes your character, and your character is reflected in the way you serve.
To illustrate, let me point out one of the apostle Paul’s concerns for believers.
He desired that those to whom he was writing would look more and more like Jesus in their life and character.
In other words, he wants believers to be spiritually mature or complete.
Just consider the following passages from Paul’s pen:
Col 1:28-29 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.
2 Cor 13:9b this we also pray for, that you be made complete.
2 Cor 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
The journey of learning Greek will help you grow and mature into the image of Christ, just as God wills for you. (1 Thess 4:3, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification…”)
Here's 4 Ways That Learning Greek Benefits You:
When you read your New Testament in Greek…
1. You’ll have greater clarity about what the writers of the New Testament books have communicated. As one of our members put it, “I feel like I’m getting to know the authors.”
2. You’ll have greater confidence in your understanding of scripture. You’ll understand the decisions that translators have wrestled with and be able to articulate exactly what the Greek says and means.
3. You’ll also see incredible gains in efficiency because you’re less dependent on the work of others. Instead of spending 10 hours in the commentaries, you spend a short time reading the text for yourself and then briefly consult the most advanced commentaries to make sure you’ve not missed any insights, saving hours of reading.
4. And best of all, you’ll have a richness, a vitality in your walk with Christ, a daily joy that is constantly growing deeper.
But Won't This Take Forever?
Yes, learning Greek will take time… but learning Greek is not all or nothing.
Start now and in a couple of weeks you’ll be able to translate some simple Greek.
From there you can read more and more complex texts with less and less help.
One year from now, you’ll be reading whole books of the Greek New Testament, starting with the easiest books.
From there, you’ll continue learning vocabulary and honing your skills and work from these easy books to the most complex and difficult Greek not only in the New Testament but also the Septuagint and the Apostolic Fathers.
Yes, learning Greek takes time, but the development of any skill takes time. How long did it take you to learn to read English? Did you read English after a year like you read it now? Of course not. You’ve developed the skills to read and honed them over years.
That’s exactly how it works when you learn New Testament Greek!
But as an adult, you have some advantages over when you were a child. You’ve got amazing cognitive capability you didn’t have then, which means you’ll learn faster.
And you’ve learned discipline, and can follow instructions to fast track the process.
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” – 2 Tim 2:15
Accurately handling the word of truth... without needing to be ashamed.
Who doesn’t want that?
Reading in Greek will empower your life and ministry more than any other theological pursuit, because learning and knowing the original languages will immerse you in the word of truth like never before.
Join now, cancel any time.
It starts with beginning Greek!
One Easy Lesson Per Week
Everything in One Place
Work at Your Pace
Live Calls + Replays
Beginning Greek in Small Steps is our own tailor-made beginning Greek course designed for people with jobs, family, and ministry commitments so that you can take small, consistent steps to learn or review the basics at your own pace, or with a cohort.
Beginning Greek in Small Steps is broken into 5 parts of four modules, each containing three lessons (12 lessons for each part). At the end of each of the 5 parts, we provide a review to help you cement what you’ve learned and provide you with confidence before you move forward.
Each lesson is designed to be comfortably completed in a week. Some lessons are designed to be combined. Others will take a little more work.
When you learn beginning Greek with Biblical Mastery Academy we provide you with everything you need:
- Downloadable, comprehensive explanations for every lesson
- Up to date with the latest scholarship
- Our comprehensive workbook you can print out at home or import to your tablet.
- *NEW* Purchase a printed copy of the workbook in five parts as you progress (optional)
- Vocabulary flashcards including the word in a sample verse from the New Testament
- Flashcards to help you learn morphology and forms (i.e. paradigms)
- Concept flashcards to remember what you need to know for each lesson
- Thorough video explanations of each lesson
- Additional bonus lessons to help you get the most from key resources
- Use your web browser, or download our app!
Study at Your Pace or Join a Cohort
A cohort is simply a class that works together at a predetermined pace. Students, as always, are welcome to work at their own pace, but a cohort provides a consistent pace and a group of other students to work with, much as you would in a college or seminary environment. We’ve found this is a great motivator to maintain momentum and to benefit from the collective questions and challenges of the group as they interact with the material under the supervision and tutelage of an experienced instructor.
Each of the 5 parts of Beginning Greek in Small Steps start each quarter, making the progress consistent, and the loading comfortable so you complete each part with confidence.
Join our weekly calls with our instructor, or watch the recording if you can’t make the call.
How Cohorts Work
Want to know how we run our cohorts? This short video explains it in detail:
From Beginner to Mastery
The Greek Mastery Membership
is the Comprehensive and Systematic Approach
Beginning Greek is just the beginning. There’s so much more to the membership!
- A world class community of instructors and fellow members
- Greek courses from Beginner to Advanced Exegesis
- Live cohorts that walk through course material with an instructor on a weekly call
- Milestones with lessons guiding you through the Greek New Testament, book by book in order of difficulty
Milestones
Milestones are the backbone of the membership, and help you learn to read each book of the Greek New Testament systematically, starting from the easiest and working through to the most difficult.
Each of our 7 milestone contains video lessons with a new text to read, vocabulary to learn and an explanation of how the Greek text is working.
Community
Join our community with world-class members on the same journey as you.
The community is also where we host weekly calls for support and growth – anyone can join these calls, regardless of which milestone or stage you’re in.
Some of our members have started teaching inside the community.
Courses
We host additional courses inside the membership including:
- Beginning Greek
- Introduction to John’s Epistles
- Introduction to Pauline Greek
- Biblical Interpretation & Exegesis
- Exegesis of Ephesians
After two years in the Greek Mastery Membership program my ability to read and comprehend the Greek texts has soared. Not only have I become fluent with many Greek texts but I’ve also gained clarity and confidence when it comes to preaching and teaching the Scriptures. Above all else, I’m getting to know my Saviour in a deeper way. So, if you’re committed to the task and joy of learning to read the Greek New Testament, this program will get you there!
I've taught this system to Greek Mastery Members, and here's what they say:
1. Its system of learning is clear and systematic. It breaks things down into manageable steps, is easy to follow and you get to see your progress towards the goal of reading the entire GNT.
2. Darryl Burling is really knowledgable, friendly, helpful and he really wants you to be able to read the entire GNT
3.The Community - learning Greek in the courses together with other people who are passionate about the GNT really spurs me on.
Since joining the program I've regained all the Greek that I've lost since Bible college, am now able to read the GNT in my devotion and use it in my sermon prep. I am looking forward to be able to read the whole GNT.
With the Greek Mastery Membership,
you follow a proven path to success.
One of the biggest challenges of learning Greek is the sheer size of this task.
That’s why we’ve broken the task into a series of smaller, bite-sized lessons that we’ve put into a structure, which we refer to as milestones.
These milestones walk you systematically through the entire journey from Beginner to Mastery.
As you can see in the picture, the books are in a specific order…
That order is from easiest to hardest in terms of syntactical and lexical difficulty.
In other words, you will be reading your way through the Greek New Testament from easiest book to hardest!
What’s more, you will learn vocabulary as you go – meaning that for every book you read, you will learn only the new vocabulary you need, building on your existing knowledge.
I developed this approach to teach myself to read the Greek New Testament
It enabled me to speed well ahead of what seminary was teaching me!
Here’s the story of how this system came about.
When I was a student in seminary, I had the personal goal of reading the whole Greek NT.
However, I realized the classes alone were not enough to take me to that goal. I knew if I wanted to succeed, I’d have to come up with a system myself.
So I started learning the vocabulary for the book we were studying.
Then I did the same with the next book.
Not only was this easy, it was way more effective than learning vocabulary by occurrence (which was what we were required to do).
Where students were picking through words, dependent on reader’s editions, I could read the whole book!
This success led me to look at the entire Greek New Testament and arrange them from easiest to hardest.
I then went through and created my own vocabulary glosses so I could learn a word once and read it every time I came across it.
I couldn’t believe no one else was doing this. It blew other approaches to learning vocabulary out of the water.
Our Milestones are
the foundation of the
Greek Mastery Membership...
So you can make small, consistent steps toward mastery.
Every Milestone contains a number of New Testament books to read. Video lessons guide you through the grammar concepts of the reading of the week, and you get a weekly set of vocabulary words to learn.
Our vocabulary acquisition program is the secret behind being able to read New Testament books with confidence and clarity. Greek Mastery Members have proven that this system is one of the most advantageous for those looking to quickly read a large volume New Testament books.
Compared with other programs, ours boasts of a high reading volume in a relatively short time!
Learning vocabulary in a strategic order makes all the difference.
In the Greek Mastery Membership, we make it easy for you. We provide all the vocabulary in digital flashcards decks, compatible with an app which is available on Apple and Google app stores for a low, one-off fee.
So far, nearly one thousand Biblical Mastery Academy members have had success with our vocabulary acquisition approach as it has helped them read confidently in Hebrew and Greek!
Look at what Hilary, a Greek Mastery Member says about this vocabulary system…
Nothing helps you to learn vocabulary better than to see it immediately in a text you are reading, and nothing helps you to read a text more easily than to have just learned the vocabulary you need for it! Biblical Mastery Academy is like the stabilisers on a training bike, giving support and confidence for the next stage in learning.
Hilary Deneufchatel
People of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of education have had success by adopting this system of learning.
Now you can too!
Community
Courses
Cohorts
Milestones
The Greek Mastery Membership offers so much more than just a curriculum.
Personal Support
in our Community Calls
When I created the Greek Mastery Membership, I didn’t want it to just be an “info-dump” with no personal support.
I wanted to make sure members were achieving their goal of learning to read Greek.
So now the membership exists in community where I and other instructors host weekly live calls!
This allows members to have consistent support, wherever they are at with their Greek.
Joining weekly calls = Huge growth in your Greek skills
Every week in our buzzing community we offer an Office Hours Call and two Text Reading Calls.
These calls are an opportunity to check in, bring questions, and make progress with your skills.
Our Community Calls include:
Greek Office Hours Call
An open call for anyone to join and bring any questions about Greek. Whatever you’re working through, use the Office Hours to interact with an instructor and discuss your current challenges. We alternate our office ours calls between these two times each week.
Greek Workshop Call
A call to discuss Greek text with a group and instructor. This call offers you the chance to sharpen your translation skills and grow in your knowledge of Greek through interaction with others following our monthly themes.
Our Current Call Schedule:
All times quoted in Pacific Time
Greek Office Hours 1:
Tuesdays 3:00pm
Greek Office Hours 2:
Thursday 8:00am
Greek Workshop Call
Mondays 4pm
Greek Workshop Call
Tuesdays 11am
Hebrew Office Hours:
Wednesdays 11am
Replays are posted soon after calls end
The Community is also a great place to get support, 24/7!
The Community is where members chat, share, and help one another out.
You’ll be able to ask any question in the community and get support from people further ahead than you. You’ll get fast responses because the members of this community love to serve and support each other.
This kind of support is invaluable. Being able to ask a question and have responses within minutes helps you grow so much faster than if you were studying alone!
As a member, you get access to an ever-growing curriculum of Greek courses...
To help you systematically learn the grammar and syntax of NT Greek!
One of the huge benefits of studying with a membership is that you don’t pay per course, and there’s no time pressure on when you have to complete courses by.
As a member, you have access to any course you need, as you need it!
We’re currently revising our intermediate courses, but here’s what we’ve offered in the past.
Greek Courses
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Beginning Greek in Small Steps
Course Outcome: You can read 1 John in Greek, and you are proficient in Beginning Greek grammar.
Course Length: ~47 weeks -
Reading Greek
Course Outcome: You can read John's 3 epistles and 4 of Paul's. Your grammar knowledge is expanding to match your reading abilities.
Course Length: 10 weeks -
Interpretation of Ephesians
Course Outcome: Greater interpretation skills, and understanding of hermeneutics. Clarity in the text of Ephesians.
Course Length: 14 weeks -
Greek Syntax (Soon to be updated to Greek Exegesis)
Course Outcome: Greater skill in reading, translating, and understanding of the intended meaning of the author. You're prepared for exegesis.
Course Length: 15 weeks
We’re always adding more courses to this membership!
In this way, the value of the membership is continually increasing – even though the price never goes up for existing members.
Cohorts:
- Accountability
- Support
- Community
(and Interaction With Experienced Instructors!)
Cohorts are groups working together through a course. Each week the cohort joins a weekly live call with one of the instructors at Biblical Mastery Academy.
This gives you get structure, accountability, and deadlines to keep you motivated.
We regularly run cohorts for all our existing courses and you can join as many cohorts as you want to and repeat them as often as you want!
The Price?
Less than a third of Seminary.
The outcome?
Far Greater than Seminary!
Let me show you...
When I went to seminary, I paid $8621 USD (adjusted for inflation) for seven classes of Greek over 7 semesters.
That included Beginning Greek, two semesters of Greek Exegesis, and then two more semesters of exegeting a few different NT books, and one class reading through the Church Fathers.
But I was not taught how to read Greek (even in my Church Fathers class).
I had to do a lot of self-directed work outside of my regular seminary studies to learn how to read.
The Greek Mastery Membership makes this much more cost effective…
You could learn to read the whole Greek New Testament in 4 years.
The Greek Mastery Membership is just US$65/month, but when you commit to a year up front, you get one month free (total: US$715/year).
So, if you stayed in the Mastery Membership for four years, your grand total would be $2860.
That’s just 33.17% of what I paid for only seven classes of seminary…
And for a far more thorough education in biblical Greek than I ever got!
Most of those who learn Greek in seminary forget what they’ve learned.
Our members continue to grow in confidence and capability in Greek, year after year.
Is that what you want? To learn, to grow, to gain confidence with New Testament Greek?
If so, let’s get started!
Why not a course?
The difference between a course and a membership is your success.
A membership allows us to invest in you, and continue to invest in what will make you successful.
We’re always evaluating member progress and updating the membership to help members succeed. Everything we do is based on planned, designed, and developed around member feedback. Once we add something to the membership, we carefully evaluate its effectiveness and continue to improve it.
In the last 12 months alone, we’ve created our new and significantly easier Beginning Greek in Small Steps course, released the Biblical Mastery Academy app (on iOS, Android, and Mac), increased the support we offer, and added new classes for members to take. And there is more to come!
Join now and start your journey. You get to keep your price as long as you remain a member in good standing!
That’s right. We never put the price up for existing members, though we do put the price up from time to time for new or returning members.
I look forward to serving you inside!
In Christ,
Darryl
Dr. Darryl Burling
Founder & CEO
Biblical Mastery Academy
Join now, cancel any time.
P.S. You can join us, risk-free with our 14 day money back guarantee
Join the membership, and if you don’t make progress within 14 days, just let us know and we will gladly refund your money. We have the most comprehensive system for learning Greek, and are confident that you can make serious progress from where you are in short order.
FAQ
Can I Cancel My Monthly Membership Any Time?
Yes, you can cancel your monthly membership at any point. When you cancel, you must acknowledge you will lose your current pricing. One of the benefits of being a member is that the price will never go up for you.
Can I Pay Annually?
Yes, you can pay annually. When you pay annually, you get one month free each year! Giving you a free month is our way of saying thanks for your commitment! Just move the slider in the top right corner when you check out.
Will I Need To Buy Any Other Resources?
Yes, you will need two apps: ParseGreek and Flashcards Deluxe from the App Store or Google Play store. These are low-priced one time purchases.
Other than that, we provide you with all the written instructions, videos, exercises, vocabulary you’ll need, and more!
Note that support for Beginning Greek in Small Steps in ParseGreek is pending the next update and not something we have any control over. Thanks for your patience!
Do I Have To Start With Beginning Greek?
Not at all. The membership is designed to be flexible! If you’ve already learned Greek, you can start with another course that is more suited to your level, and you can access Beginning Greek to brush up on the basics.
I'm Already Studying Greek. Will This Be Beneficial To Me?
If you are studying Greek in seminary or college, the Greek Mastery Membership can be a great way to go further than your academic course will take you. Many seminary students enrol with us to learn reading skills that they find are not being taught in their courses.
If you’re self-studying, you will be surprised at how much faster you can learn with our complete systematic approach!
Why is this a membership?
There are several reasons why we offer a membership rather than just courses:
- We are invested (actually we’re obsessed) with your success
- Reduces your up-front costs
- Go further in your learning than just a course
We’re committed to a membership because it is the best way to help you get the long term results you’re after, and it allows us to continue to invest in the tools and resources that you need to be successful.
Join today and start your journey to know the word of God better!
Buy with confidence! If you join the membership today and decide that its not for you within the first 14 days, just let us know and we’ll issue a full money-back guarantee.
Joining is risk free and a great investment!