SE-Conversation with New Testament Greek scholars, Bill Mounce and Dan Wallace

Synopsis Biblical Literacy Snapshots of Jesus 04/24/2022

Mark Interviews Bill Mounce and Dan Wallace

Bill and Dan were childhood friends and lived and took very different paths

In their careers, as Greek Scholars, and both were joined together as

members of the NIV Translation Committee. They discussed that journey in some

detail, which included how each of them were led to the Lord.

Bill and Dan discussed why they wanted to learn Greek. Both have PHD’s and

are very well versed and very well known for their work in translating original

manuscripts from Greek to English. Both discussed their reason for pursuing

Greek translation as a life long career.

Bill has written a book titled “Basics of Biblical Greek” which has sold over a half

a million copies.

They discussed in a very specific way how verses of the bible are translated and

the difficulty of deciphering the meaning of Greek translations into English Bible

Versions, NIV, ESV, and KJV for example. They discussed this with respect to

John 1:1, Luke 2:14, Matthew 6:13 and others.

The lesson was enlightening and motivated us to study the Bible and do our best

to understand the meaning of the message therein.