Dr. John D. Schwandt

John D. Schwandt (D.Min., M.A., B.L.A.)

Dr. Schwandt is the founding president of Redemption Seminary. He is committed to developing student-centric educational and business models that promote affordable holistic learning that is attentive to students’ specific callings and gifting.

Prior to this role, he served as the Executive Director of Mobile Education for Faithlife. Before coming to Faithlife, he helped launch New Saint Andrews College where he taught the first graduating class and continued to teach (Greek, Latin and New Testament) for 17 years. He has decades of experience teaching online and developing distance educational curricula.

He is the author of a comprehensive beginning Greek grammar, An Introduction to Biblical Greek (Lexham Press, 2020). He was the general editor of the English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament: English Standard Version (Crossway Books, 2006), and he recorded an audio version of the Greek New Testament for the German Bible Society. You have heard his voice if you have clicked on any Greek word to hear it pronounced in Logos Bible Software.

Schwandt earned his doctorate in Bible translation at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. He earned his master of arts from Westminster Theological Seminary in California, and he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho.


AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL GREEK: A GRAMMAR WITH EXERCISES

A COMPLETE INTRODUCTORY GRAMMAR THAT BUILDS ON A CLASSIC APPROACH TO LEARNING GREEK.

“John Schwandt knows how to teach Greek, and it shows in An Introduction to Biblical Greek...Schwandt’s Introduction is the best there is. I highly recommend it.” —Craig A. Evans, John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins, Houston Baptist University

In An Introduction to Biblical Greek, John D. Schwandt integrates the rigor of a classic Greek grammar with the fruit of contemporary language learning. The result is a one-stop introduction to New Testament Greek that exhibits sound scholarship in a friendly, approachable manner for students.

This textbook teaches students the basics of the Greek language through 37 short lessons supported by translation and writing exercises from the New Testament. These practical lessons and exercises will help readers grasp Greek grammar and vocabulary as they start to translate the text of the New Testament itself.

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