DESCRIPTION: This course is the first part of a three-quarter series designed
to give students a foundational knowledge of the forms and syntax of New
Testament (Koine) Greek. Students registering for this course must plan to
continue with parts B and C of the series, held in the Winter and Spring
quarters respectively. This course combines both a deductive approach to
learning with inductive study directly from the text of the New Testament.
SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: Understanding the original language of the
New Testament is one of the most basic elements in interpreting the meaning of
its various texts. Upon completion of this three-part course, you should be
equipped, with the help of certain tools, to read and translate the Greek text
of the New Testament and to consult the Greek text as part of the exegetical
task. In doing so, you will understand the challenges, purpose, and value of
learning to work with the New Testament in Greek.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon successful completion of all three quarters of this
course, you will (a) be able to identify all the relevant categories
(i.e., to parse) of most regular forms and many of the irregular but frequent
forms of the articles, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs that occur in the
Greek New Testament; (b) know the most common meanings of words occurring more
than 30 times in the Greek NT and be able to use a lexicon to find words you do
not already know; (c) understand and be able to discuss the basic
grammatical structures of Koine Greek sentences as found in the Greek NT; and
(d) be able to use major references (grammatical and lexical) to explore and
investigate words and structures more fully.
COURSE FORMAT: The course meets twice each week for two-hour sessions.
REQUIRED READING: