Live Classes at BMA: How They Work and How to Join
Biblical Mastery Academy runs live classes for Beginning Greek and Beginning Hebrew several times a year. These pages explain how the live classes work, how to access recordings if you cannot attend, and how to join. If you have come here wondering what a cohort is, that is the right question. The short answer is: a structured group of learners starting a course together, with a live instructor, at the same time.
What is a live class?
A live class is a structured learning experience where a group of members start a course together and work through it at a shared pace. You have a schedule that keeps you moving, fellow learners at the same point as you, and a live instructor who can answer questions, correct translation work, and explain what the grammar is doing in context.
The live class is not a lecture. It is a working session. Students bring their translation attempts, the instructor works through the text, and the discussion that follows is where much of the real learning happens. Members who attend live consistently get further faster: not because the content is different, but because the accountability and the community make the difference.
What is Cohort Review?
Get the benefit of a live class even if you cannot make the live call. Cohort Review lets you watch short videos from past classes covering the exact exercise you are working on. You do not have to search through a full recording. The relevant segment plays directly alongside your work.
After you complete a translation exercise in Greek Tutor, you can review your work by watching the corresponding class session for that exercise. Not the full recording, but the exact three to eight minutes where an instructor and fellow students worked through your specific exercise. The video plays alongside your own translation in a two-column layout, so you can compare what you did with what the class did in real time.
Cohort Review is available to all Greek Mastery and Premium Languages members at any time, whether or not you are enrolled in the current live class. The recordings build over time: every class session adds to the library, which stays embedded in the course for all future members.
When do classes run?
We generally start a new Beginning Greek class in January, with additional intakes throughout the year. Beginning Hebrew classes also run several times a year. Each intake is announced to the mailing list and to current members before enrolment opens.
The Beginning Greek class runs for fifteen months, covering sixty lessons across five stages at roughly one lesson per week. The structure is deliberate: a pace that moves you forward consistently without becoming unsustainable for a working Christian with other responsibilities.
In August 2026, BMA is hosting its first Academic cohort. Rather than the standard fifteen-month pace, the Academic cohort runs for one year, forty-eight weeks with a couple of scheduled breaks, designed to align with the academic school year. Starting in August means completing Beginning Greek in time for the following academic year. The Academic cohort follows the same Beginning Greek in Small Steps curriculum and is included in the Greek Mastery Membership at no additional cost. This year the Academic cohort is being adopted as the primary Greek curriculum by a seminary. If your learning fits an academic calendar, this is the cohort for you.
What happens between class intakes?
Between class intakes, the membership is fully active. Greek Tutor continues to deliver vocabulary, grammar, exercises, and the Consistency Score. Cohort Review recordings are available at every lesson. Weekly Office Hours continue. The community continues.
If you are considering joining and enrolment is currently closed, you can start with Greek Tutor now and join the membership when the next intake opens. Greek Tutor gives you immediate access to the full self-paced path, the Alphabet Explorer, and the Consistency Score.
How to join
The Greek Mastery Membership and Hebrew Mastery Membership both include live class access. Join either membership when enrolment is open and you will be invited to the next class intake. If enrolment is currently closed, join the waitlist and we will notify you when it opens. In the meantime, Greek Tutor gives you immediate access to the full self-paced path.