DESCRIPTION: This is a ten-week intensive course designed to give students a
foundational knowledge of the forms and syntax of New Testament (Koine) Greek.
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 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 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 50
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 three times each week for four-hour
sessions.
REQUIRED READING: