Faculty

John D. Schwandt is a Fellow of Classical and Languages at New Saint Andrews and teaches Latin and Greek.

Mr. Schwandt is pursuing his doctorate in Bible translation at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. He earned his Master of Arts from Westminster Theological Seminary in California in 1997. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho. In addition, he has pursued college-level study in Latin and the philosophy of language, and has traveled to Greece on several occasions to develop and maintain fluency in modern Greek.

Mr. Schwandt is the founder of the Institute of Biblical Greek and creator of the National Biblical Greek Exam, an online examination program. The National Association of Secondary School Principals placed the exam on its National Advisory List of Contests and Activities for 2004-2005.

Mr. Schwandt was the general editor of the English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament: English Standard Version (Crossway Books, 2006). A number of widely distributed Bible software programs now have Mr. Schwandt’s voice heard on all of them. In one summer, he recorded all 6,000+ lemas in the in New Testament. He actually did this twice, once using the Erasmian pronunciation and once with the modern pronunciation.  Since then Logos Research Systems (the largest of the Bible software companies) began selling this add-on to their program. Soon all Bible software programs will feature Mr. Schwandt's golden tones as “the voice of Greek.”

Mr. Schwandt and wife Tabithah have three sons and one daughter.

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Selected Publications

John Schwandt is the general editor of the ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament (Crossway, 2006)

John Schwandt's recording of the entire Greek New Testament in the Erasmian pronunciation available through Logos Bible Software company.


"Cur Sola Latina?" Classis (ACCS Newsletter), March 2002