It is worth emphasizing at the beginning what this book is not. It is not, on the one hand, an exhaustive reference grammar of Koine Greek. Nor, on the other, is it an introductory textbook. It rather occupies a somewhat ambiguous middle position, that of a “pedagogical grammar” aimed at beginning and intermediate students, and intended both for “occasional reference” as well as “reading through” from cover to cover (ix). Its stated purpose is to help beginner-intermediate students to read the Greek of the New Testament (ix-x). To a lesser degree it also covers Koine Greek generally; but its aim and its focus are narrowly tailored to reading and interpreting the NT. It therefore omits some information not strictly required for this goal, such as nuances in the declension of μι-verbs, as well as including material not usually found in grammars but which is useful for reflection and meditation on what is after all held by many to be a sacred text. Classicists are not the book’s intended audience (it assumes no prior knowledge of either Classical Greek or Latin) but will still find it useful. The days are thankfully past when classicists could dismiss the Koine as simply bad Greek, yet most of us still do not receive any systematic overview of the post-classical language; here the frequent comparisons made to Attic, though they are not the focus of the text, will nonetheless be of interest to those of us more familiar with Plato than with Matthew.