New Testament Greek A

UFT Code: 
AL300
Unit Credit Points: 
15
Timetabling
Semester: 
First Semester
Day: 
Monday
Time: 
10 - 1
Lecturer Profile: 
Catherine Playoust
Location: 
United Faculty of Theology
Years Offered: 
2010
Notes: 

Also has a tutorial on Thursdays 9-10

 
This unit introduces students to the original language of the New Testament. It provides sufficient knowledge of the vocabulary, grammar and syntax to enable them to begin to translate and interpret the New Testament from the Greek text. Several short passages from the New Testament will be translated. Some attention will also be given to other writings in Greek that were important for early Christians, such as the Septuagint or non-NT Christian texts from the first and second centuries.
 

Description
Learning Outcomes: 

 
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:

  1. translate fairly simple sentences and passages from New Testament Greek into English
  2. translate simple sentences from English into New Testament Greek
  3. know the meaning of words that occur frequently in the New Testament
  4. analyse the grammar and syntax of fairly simple sentences in New Testament Greek
  5. apply their knowledge of Greek to the exegesis of passages in the New Testament

translate simple passages from other Greek texts important to early Christians
 

Teaching Methods: 

a) A two-day presessional class
b) A three-hour weekly class for twelve weeks
c) An optional one-hour weekly tutorial for ten weeks

Contact Hours: 

50 hours

Assessment: 

 
Weekly tests (25%, outcomes 1–4) 
2 short homework exercises (15%, outcomes 1–2, 4–5)
2 further homework exercises on non-NT Greek texts (10%, outcome 6)
1 x 2-hour written examination (50%, outcomes 1–5)
 
 

Mode of Teaching: 
Semester
Bibliography: 

 

*Aland, Barbara and Kurt Aland. The Greek New Testament. 4th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. New York: United Bible Societies, 1993. [Normally supplied by courtesy of The Bible Society.]
Bauer, Walter, Frederick Danker, et al.A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Croy, N. Clayton. A Primer of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
*Duff, Jeremy. The Elements of New Testament Greek. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. [The CD-ROM often packaged with this is optional.]
Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
Newman, Barclay M. A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. New York: United Bible Societies, 1993. [Normally bound in the same volume as The Greek New Testament.]

 

Unit Fields
Course: 
Graduate Diploma in Theology
Master of Divinity
MTS
BTheol Field: 
Field A Humanities
BTheol Discipline: 
Biblical Languages
MDiv Field: 
Biblical Language
RTI: 
United Faculty of Theology
Department Name: 
Department of Biblical Languages and Literature
Unit Level
GradDip Field: 
Foundational
MDiv Type of Study: 
Foundational
MTS: 
MTS
Postgraduate: 
No

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