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Since I teach beginning Greek frequently, using BibleWorks 8 to help students learn is important to me. One simple feature that pays a wealth of dividends is the vocabulary module. Memorizing vocabulary is hard, and perhaps a little tedious, but it is absolutely essential if one is going to read the New Testament with any proficiency.

After a year of securing a contract, nine months of producing the manuscript, and 15 months of editing and waiting, the New Reader's Lexicon is finally here. It's been a fun couple of weeks to see it arrive in stages. Last Tuesday I arrived in my office in the morning to find my free author's copies had arrived. This week at ETS the book is being displayed by the publisher to many Greek professors and other New Testament scholars. My daughter even took it to show to her second grade class! If I can get second graders to read Greek, graduate students should be a piece of cake!

NT104 is another course I teach. This is our course on introduction to exegesis. In it we focus on the method of exegesis, and we walk through the content of Ephesians in the process. We cover many different aspects of the method and then practice that in Ephesians with ample opportunity along the way to deal with important issues and problems in that book.

I teach within the New Testament Studies department at DTS, so as you can imagine most everything I do centers around the NT. We have seven required courses in NT here for students in the Master of Theology program, and I teach five of them.