New Testament Greek B

UFT Code: 
AL301
Unit Credit Points: 
15
Timetabling
Semester: 
Second Semester
Day: 
Monday
Time: 
10 - 1
Lecturer Profile: 
Catherine Playoust
Location: 
United Faculty of Theology
Years Offered: 
2010

 
This unit continues on from AL300. It provides further instruction in Greek syntax, grammar and vocabulary, using the same textbook as in the previous semester. About a third of the unit will be devoted to the translation of extended portions of the Greek New Testament (e.g., chapters from 1 John), prepared in advance by the students. These selected passages will be studied for syntactical grammatical analysis and translation into English, but also to see how engaging with a biblical text in its original language can assist in its interpretation. Furthermore, there will be some opportunities to translate passages from other writings in Greek that were important for early Christians.
 

Description
Learning Outcomes: 

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

  1. translate moderately difficult sentences and passages from NT Greek into English
  2. translate fairly simple sentences from English into NT Greek
  3. demonstrate an increasingly wide NT Greek vocabulary
  4. analyse the grammar and syntax of moderately difficult sentences in NT Greek
  5. apply their knowledge of Greek to the exegesis of lengthy NT passages
  6. translate fairly simple passages from other Greek texts important to early Christians

 

Prerequisites: 
Successful completion of AL300 New Testament Greek A (or equivalent, with permission of the lecturer).
Teaching Methods: 

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

Contact Hours: 

36 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.]
Kubo, Sakae. A Reader’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975.
Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
Mounce, William D. A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
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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