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About Us
John D. Schwandt, M.A.
Curriculum Vitae
P.O. Box 8473
Moscow, ID 83843
1-800-445-2456
Email Contact
New St. Andrews College, Senior Fellow of Classical Languages, 1997-present
John D. Schwandt is a Senior Fellow of Classical Languages at New St. Andrews. (View current syllabi.) He currently teaches all of the Greek courses, and previously taught Latin and Hebrew. Mr. Schwandt completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho. He earned his Master of Arts from Westminster Theological Seminary in California in 1997. In addition, he has pursued further study in Latin, and the philosophy of language. He regularly travels to Greece to work on fluency in the modern Greek tongue.
Mr. Schwandt developed and is currently the director of the National Biblical Greek Exam. The NBGE is an online exam that seeks to promote the study of biblical Greek by assessing and directing students in specific areas of grammatical knowledge, and by giving detailed feedback to instructors and schools about the performance of their Greek programs. The National Biblical Greek Exam was debuted at the 2003 annual Society of Biblical Literature conference and was then asked to be the subject of a special session in 2005 (Buist Fanning presided over the planal consisting of John Schwandt, John Lawarence, and Larry Braskamp (Former president of CHEA -the govermental body that accredits all nationally recognized accreditation bodies). John Schwandt also presented a paper on the National Biblical Greek Exam at the Northwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Society. Currently, there are a number of universities and seminaries using the exam.
Instructor for Greek In A Week intensive summer workshops, 1998-present
Mr. Schwandt developed a curriculum of teaching the basics of biblical Greek in one week. Each year various educational and theological institutions invite him to teach Greek In A Week. In this program, he meets with students and/or teachers for eight to nine hours each day, in which he lectures, drills vocabulary and paradigms, and assists with translation exercises. Please take a look at the host list for this year's GIAW, or start organizing one in your own city. It only takes a class size of eight to bring Greek In A Week to your city.
Mr. Schwandt directs a couple of live online Greek tutorials for the Institute of Biblical Greek. This year Mr. Schwandt will be teaching both courses. Throughout the academic year, these tutorials meet once a week for live two hour sessions. In the beginning course, students work through the Reviving Biblical Greek curriculum, which emphasizes conversational skills, and they work through many chapters in Machen's text, which emphasizes composition. The intermediate course is more of a directed reading group, which translates a gospel and two epistles each year. Both programs utilize an online forum for mutual assistance and encouragement.
Family
Mr. Schwandt resides in Moscow with his beautiful wife, Tabithah. They have three sons, John Owen, Samuel Rutherford and Kaspar Olevianus. They are hoping to develop some toddler and elementary Greek learning materials for parents who don't know Greek. Since children are accustomed to learning languages Greek study can be very beneficial and fun at these ages. There is no need to learn Latin first since everything is foreign to youngsters. John Owen learned the Lord's prayer in Greek at the age of two.
Contact Information
John D. Schwandt
P.O. Box 8473
Moscow, ID 83843
(1-800) 445-2456
Email Contact
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