Using and Enjoying Biblical Greek: Reading the New Testament with Fluency and Devotion (Biblia.com)

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Many who study biblical Greek despair of being able to use it routinely, but veteran instructor Rodney A. Whitacre demonstrates how to overcome this obstacle. By learning to read Greek slowly, students can become fluent one passage at a time and grasp the New Testament in its original language. Whitacre explains how to practice meditation on Scripture (lectio divina) in Greek, presenting a...

attention to the details.12 As Grabe notes, “Getting the language right, even if tentatively, should be the precursor of fluency development.”13 Commenting on a child learning their native language, Shaywitz says, “To acquire a new word for his vocabulary, a child must scrutinize the inner details of the word and not gloss over it.”14 So along with rapid reading there is this more careful reading. The analogy with learning to play a musical instrument is often used. For many instruments, you need

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