J. GRESHAM MACHEN: New Testament Greek For Beginners

“This book is intended primarily for readers who are beginning the study of the Greek Testament either without any previous acquaintance with the Greek language or with an acquaintance so imperfect that a renewed course of elementary instruction is needed.

The book is an instruction book, and not a descriptive grammar. Since it is an instruction book, everything in it is made subservient to the imparting of a reading acquaintance with the language… The effort is made here to enter upon these explanations which the fifteen years’ experience of the author in teaching New Testament Greek has shown to be essential… The vocabularies have been limited to words which are very common in the New Testament…”

(Preface of New Testament Greek for Beginners (1923) by J. Gresham Machen)