J. Gresham Machen Collection: Bible Survey and Greek Grammar (2 Vols.)

by James Oscar Boyd; J. Gresham Machen

Publishers:

Westminster; Macmillan Co.

, 1922–1924

Overview

J. Gresham Machen, the final scholar in the lineage of the Great Princeton Theologians, taught at Princeton Seminary for almost 15 years and established himself as a well-respected New Testament scholar. After a dispute that divided faculty members over an emerging modernist theology, Machen left Princeton and became one of the principal founders of Westminster Theological Seminary, where he taught until his death.

The two volumes included in this collection include a survey of Bible history, authored with his college James Oscar Boyd, and his acclaimed introductory grammar: New Testament Greek for Beginners. A staple textbook in classrooms for generations. Machen's teaching grammar was the most used introduction to New Testament Greek in Bible colleges and seminaries across North America through most of the 20th century. With plenty of practical readings and exercises, this text continues to hold value today with its approach to getting students into the text of the New Testament.

Key Features

• Includes the classic introductory grammar for New Testament Greek of the 20th century
• Both volumes emphasize the practical needs of students
• Organized in terms of accessible lessons and exercises

Product Details

• Title: J. Gresham Machen Update Collection
• Volumes: 2
• Pages: 421
• Resource Type: Introductions and Grammars
• Topic: Biblical Studies

New Testament Greek for Beginners

• Author: J. Gresham Machen
• Publisher: MacMillan & Co.
• Publication Date: 1924
• Pages: 293

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The present book is adapted not only to students who have no previous acquaintance with Greek at all but, also, to those whose acquaintance with Greek is so imperfect that a renewed course of elementary instruction is needed. Lack of previous study of classical Attic prose need bar no honest student from acquiring the ability to read the easier Greek of the New Testament.

This book is an instruction book about Greek, rather than a descriptive grammar. Because of that, all the grammar content been made subservient to the imparting of a reading acquaintance with the Greek language. Just those explanations are introduced which the author's fifteen years of experience in teaching New Testament Greek has shown to be necessary and the explanatory parts are supplemented by abundant exercises.

John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary from 1915–1929. After a dispute against the emerging modernist theology at Princeton, Machen became one of the principal founders of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he taught until his death. Machen is considered the last of the great Princeton Theologians (after Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, A. A. Hodge, and B. B. Warfield), and his works reflect their tradition of conservative, Calvinist orthodoxy.

A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments

• Author: James Oscar Boyd and J. Gresham Machen
• Publisher: Westminster Press
• Publication Date: 1922
• Pages: 128

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This little volume surveys the history of God's redeeming grace, by reviewing Old Testament History and disclosing the stream of God's redeeming purposes flowing down through older times. It also covers the historical events of the New Testament, illustrating how God's purposes for humanity in the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his Church.

John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary from 1915–1929. After a dispute against the emerging modernist theology at Princeton, Machen became one of the principal founders of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he taught until his death. Machen is considered the last of the great Princeton Theologians (after Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, A. A. Hodge, and B. B. Warfield), and his works reflect their tradition of conservative, Calvinist orthodoxy.

James Oscar Boyd (1874–1947) was assistant professor of Oriental and Old Testament literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. His numerous works include The Octateuch in Ethiopic According to the Text of the Paris Codex, The Documents of the Book of Ezra, The Historicity of Ezra, and A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments.