Fall 2014/Houston

LG512A

Davis

LG512A: INTRODUTION TO NEW TESTAMENT GREEK PART 1 (4 Units: 160 hours). James Davis.

DESCRIPTION: Greek A introduces students to basic building blocks of New Testament Greek, including nouns and cases, prepositions, adjectives, pronouns, indicative verbs, and an introductory vocabulary.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Having successfully completed this two-quarter sequence, students will have demonstrated the ability to (1) read aloud in Greek and to write legibly in its standard script; (2) recognize and translate from memory vocabulary words introduced in Mounce chs. 1-20; (3) identify (i.e., to parse) various forms of articles, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, present indicative verbs and future active and middle indicative verbs; (4) understand and explain basic Greek grammar and syntax; (5) translate basic texts in the original language.

COURSE FORMAT: The class meets once per week for three-hour sessions for a total of 30 hours of classroom instruction consisting of lecture and discussion. In addition there will be 10 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours.

REQUIRED READING: 1100 total number of pages required

Your choice of one of the following Greek New Testaments:

Aland, K., et al. The Greek New Testament. 4th rev. ed. United Bible Societies, 1993. ISBN: 9783438051103. Pub. Price: $43.99. OR

Nestle, E., and K. Aland. Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland GNT). 27th ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993. ISBN: 9783438051004. Pub. price: $40.99. [N.B.: other editions of the UBS4/NA27, including electronic versions and Reader's Editions, are permissible, but access to the textual apparatus, marginal notes, and other resources found in the standard print editions may be required during the course.]

Danker, F. W. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2000 [BDAG]. ISBN: 9780226039336. Pub. Price: $165.00. [300 pp. assigned]. [N.B.: electronic versions of BDAG with full text and pagination are also permissible.]

Metzger, Bruce M. Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek. 3rd ed. Baker Academic, 1998. ISBN: 9780801021800. Pub. Price: $12.99. [112 pp. assigned].

Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar. 3rd ed. Zondervan, 2009. ISBN: 978-0310287681, Pub. Price $49.99 [448 pp.].

________. Basics of Biblical Greek: Workbook. 3rd ed. Zondervan, 2009. ISBN: 978-0310287674, Pub. Price $22.99 [240 pp.].