Introduction to New Testament Greek (B) (AL9742B)

Content

This unit follows material from AL8741B Introduction to New Testament Greek (A) and discusses further the issues of Greek syntax, grammar, and vocabulary with a particular emphasis on the verbal system and participles. It helps students to develop more advanced skills for translation and interpretation through reading and linguistic analysis of selected of New Testament texts.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Prerequisite: AL8741B Introduction to New Testament Greek (A) or equivalent.

Pedagogy

The unit will facilitate student learning and achieving LOs in an online environment through a set of appropriate learning activities, e.g. translation, parsing, workbook exercises, vocabulary recall, and practicing reading, writing, and listening in Koine Greek. The unit also includes a set of online tutorials.

Indicative Bibliography

• = set texts recommended for purchase

Aland, B. and K. Aland et al, The Greek New Testament with a Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament, 5th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft/New York: United Bible Societies, 2014.

Aland, B., Aland, K., Karavidopoulos, J., Martini, Carlo M. et al. Novum Testamentum Graece with Dictionary, 28th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012.

Bauer, Walter and Frederick W. Danker. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Duff, J., The Elements of New Testament Greek, 3rd ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2005.

Köstenberger Andreas J, Benjamin L Merkle, and Robert L Plummer. Going Deeper with New Testament Greek: An Intermediate Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the New Testament. Nashville, Tennessee: B & H Academic, 2020.

Mathewson, David, and Elodie Ballantine Emig. Intermediate Greek Grammar: Syntax for Students of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2016.

• Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar Workbook. 4th edition. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019.

• Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. 4th edition. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019.

Robinson, Maurice A, and Mark A House. Analytical Lexicon of New Testament Greek. Revised and updated. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, LLC, 2012.

Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament: With Scripture, Subject, and Greek Word Indexes. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1996.

Assessment