Articles
Articles
Working through the why and the how of reading Scripture in the original languages. Free, ungated, and written to be read.
Article
The cost of losing Greek
The church is losing its ability to read and exegete Greek. How the languages slipped from the seminary, and why their recovery is the church's task to demand.
Article
Did Jesus Speak Greek?
Jesus spoke Aramaic, and almost certainly Greek too. An excursus on the languages of first-century Palestine and the question of a lost Aramaic Matthew.
Article
How did Greek come to be significant for the church?
Jesus spoke Greek. How Alexander's conquests made Greek the language of Israel, the Septuagint, and the early church, and why that heritage still matters.
Article
The benefits of learning Greek
Most modern Christians engage Scripture only through translation. This is the case for closing the language, time, cultural, and worldview gaps by learning Greek.