My friend Lee Irons is giving away free on his website several valuable tools to help you maintain or improve your New Testament Greek reading ability. First, he has prepared a calendar of daily readings that will take you through the entire New Testament in Greek in the space of one year. I realize we’re already a good part of the way through January, but you can just start with the current day’s reading. Don’t delay practicing your Greek for another year just because you didn’t start on January 1.
Second–and this is the real gem–he is giving away PDFs of exegetical notes for each book of the Bible, mainly his own keen observations, and also comments from grammars, lexicons, and so forth. You can print them out and make a little booklet out of them to carry with you as you read through the Greek New Testament this year.
Irons’ system is intended to be used with The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader’s Edition, which has the text of UBS4 and a running dictionary of uncommon words along the bottom of each page–fully parsed in case you get stuck. In the back is a dictionary of all the rest of the words in the Greek NT, so you’re covered no matter how small your vocabulary is.
I used Irons’ system sporadically last year, but this year I’ve been faithfully setting aside about 30 minutes every day and am all caught up, ready to read the second half of Matthew 13 today. Thanks, Lee!
