Homeschool · Greek (Koine)
J. Gresham Machen's New Testament Greek for Beginners (1923), the classic first course in Koine Greek, the Greek of the New Testament. Free to read here or download.
J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937) taught New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He wrote this book for students starting Greek with no background, and it is still used today. Its lessons teach Koine Greek forms and grammar step by step, with exercises in both directions and vocabulary drawn from the New Testament.
This is Koine Greek, the common Greek of the first century. It is close to, but not the same as, the Homeric Greek of the Iliad and Odyssey and the Attic Greek of Athens. The site's Greek alphabet page, flashcards and Gospel reader are all Koine too.
Lessons on the Greek of the New Testament, from the alphabet and accents through verbs, participles and the subjunctive, with exercises and vocabulary.
Scanned from a Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy.
For Latin, see Latin.
Every book here was published in the United States before 1930, so it is in the public domain there: free to read, print and share. The scans are kept by the Internet Archive, which shows them on this page and supplies the PDF downloads. The teaching guides are written for this site. Modern reprints are also sold, if you prefer a clean printed copy.