This open-access textbook helps students learn to read New Testament Greek at the elementary level. It includes clear, concise explanations of grammar and syntax, helpful examples, and essential vocabulary, with no assumption of previous language study, and it does not require accents for most forms. At the end of each of its twenty chapters, students will find short Greek-language episodes from the life of a fictional early Christian family of Jewish ancestry, short readings from the Greek New Testament and Septuagint, and review/homework exercises that can help reinforce new concepts and vocabulary. This book can help students prepare to read Nijay Gupta and Jonah Sandford’s Intermediate Greek Reader: Galatians and Related Texts , also available as an open-access textbook.
Education: BA, Yale University, 1992; MA, University of Washington, 1995; PhD, University of Washington, 1999. At SPU since 2001.
Born in Washington, D.C., Owen Ewald came to Seattle in 1992 and never left. He is married with two children. His dissertation concerned how historians during the Roman Empire, especially the 100s AD, looked back to the Roman Republic (753-31 BC). His scholarship in the discipline of Classics includes articles on aesthetics, historiography, poetics, and topography, as well as translations.
Since 2005, Dr. Ewald has delivered the annual Marston Lecture in Classics, and past topics have included Augustine, humor, and science fiction/fantasy. In more than 15 years of teaching at SPU, he has taught Latin, Greek, ancient literature in translation, art history, and ancient history. He has taught in the University Scholars program since 2008.
