Cincinnati Christian University
Cincinnati Bible Seminary
FULL COURSE PLAN: BLA 511 (2) INTERMEDIATE GREEK
Spring Semester 2013
12:30-3:10 p.m. Scott Lloyd, Instructor
Tuesdays Office: Library
Office Telephone: (513) 244-8435 (ext. 8435 on campus)
Fax: (513) 244-8434
email: Scott.Lloyd@ccuniversity.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00a.m.-5:30p.m. (with the exception of Monday and Wednesday afternoons)
Students are encouraged to stop in during office hours to talk about any problems or suggestions concerning the course. If these times are not convenient, appointments can be scheduled at other times.
RATIONALE
A study of the linguistic and grammatical fundamentals of New Testament Greek directed toward developing translation skills.
Understanding of the New Testament, the standard of Christian faith and practice, requires knowledge of its original language. Study of Koine Greek is therefore essential for those whose vocations
will involve preaching, teaching or other ministry of the Word.
This course is a continuation of BLA 510: Beginning New Testament Greek
OBJECTIVES
The student who satisfactorily completes this course should be able to:
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Recite the first forms and basic meanings of vocabulary words.
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Identify inflected forms and deduce their first forms.
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List and identify the uses of cases.
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Write from memory the conjugation of the model verb.
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Identify and explain the significance of grammatical constructions.
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Read and translate sentences from exercises and selected sentences from the Greek NT or related literature.
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Compose Greek sentences as required.
MAJOR LEARNING EXPERIENCES, COURSE PROCEDURES AND ASSIGNMENTS
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Class sessions will be given to lectures and discussion of Greek grammar, led by the instructor and following the material in the textbook consecutively.
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Out of class, students will:
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Prepare exercises from the textbook and supplementary exercises provided by the instructor, including translation and composition of Greek sentences. These will be reviewed and discussed in class.
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Review vocabulary and paradigms of inflection daily, committing these firmly to memory.
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At the beginning of each class, students will be asked to report the amount of time they have studied. Since regular, careful, systematic study is the most important factor in the successful completion of the course, students are strongly encouraged to devote at least six hours each week to preparing exercises and reviewing vocabulary and grammar, though some may require more or less. Students who find this demand to be too great are encouraged to consider the relative value of other activities to which they might devote this time.
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A comprehensive final exam will be given at the end of the semester.
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Before the final exam, students will be required to produce outside of class from memory a chart of the conjugation of the model verb in the indicative mood.
GRADING AND ATTENDANCE POLICIES
Grades will be figured according to the following formula:
Assignments, study time, and quizzes 50%
Conjugation of model verb 10%
Final exam 40%
This formula may be altered at the instructor’s discretion to account for individual circumstances.
Regular attendance at class sessions is absolutely vital. The usual Seminary policy regarding attendance will apply; reinstatement will be permitted only if the instructor has good reason to believe that the student will be able to learn the material in spite of absences. No specific penalty in grades will be assessed for absences, but students are reminded that any absence will inevitably damage their learning experience and will therefore be reflected in performance on quizzes and exams.
“Excused absences,” therefore, do not really exist!
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Required Textbook
Black, David Alan.
Learn to Read New Testament Greek. 3
rd ed. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2009.
Gutierrez, Ben, and Cara L. Murphy.
Learn to Read New Testament Greek Workbook: Supplemental Exercises for Greek Grammar Students. David A. Croteau, ed. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2009.
Editions of the Greek New Testament
The Greek New Testament. K. Aland, B. Metzger,
et al., eds. 4
th rev. ed. New York: United Bible Societies, 1994.
The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader’s Edition. Aland, Barbara, et. al., eds. 4
th rev. ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2007. (Recommended for this semester.)
Novum Testamentum Graece. E. Nestle, K. Aland,
et al., eds. 28th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012.
Other Beginning Greek Grammars
Adam, A. K. M.
A Grammar for New Testament Greek. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999.
Croy, N. Clayton.
A Primer of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
Duff, Jeremy.
The Elements of New Testament Greek. 3
rd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Goodwin, William W.
A Greek Grammar. London: Macmillan, 1972.
Hewett, James Allen.
New Testament Greek: A Beginning and Intermediate Grammar. Rev. and exp. by C. Michael Robbins and Steven R. Johnson. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009.
Long, Gary A. Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek: Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2006.
Machen, J. Gresham.
New Testament Greek for Beginners. Toronto: Macmillan, 1923.
Mills, Watson E.
New Testament Greek. 2
nd ed. New York: Mellen, 1988.
Mounce, William D.
Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar. 3r
d ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 2009.
Porter, Stanley E., Jeffrey T. Reed, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell.
Fundamentals of New Testament Greek. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
Sawyer, Thomas, and Ray Summers.
Essentials of New Testament Greek. Rev. ed. Nashville: Broadman & Holman: 1995.
Wenham, J. W. The Elements of New Testament Greek. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Intermediate and Advanced Greek Grammars
Black, David Alan.
It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.
Blass, Friederich, and A. DeBrunner.
A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Trans. Robert Funk. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Brooks, James A. and Carlton L. Winbery.
Syntax of New Testament Greek. Washington: University Press of America, 1979.
Dana, H. E. and Julius R. Mantey.
A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament. Toronto: Macmillan, 1955.
Easley, Kendell H.
User-Friendly Greek: A Common Sense Approach to the Greek New Testament. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1994.
MacDonald, William G.
Greek Enchiridion: A Concise Handbook of Grammar for Translation and Exegesis. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987.
Moule, C. F. D.
An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
Porter, Stanley.
Idioms of the Greek Greek New Testament. Sheffield: JSOT, 1992.
Wallace, Daniel.
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
Young, Richard A.
Intermediate New Testament Greek: A Linguistic and Exegetical Approach. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1994.
Zerwick, Maximilian.
Biblical Greek. Rome: Scripta Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1963.
Greek-English Lexicons
Danker, Fred, ed.
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3
rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Gingrich, F. Wilbur and Frederick W. Danker.
Shorter Lexicon of the Greek New Testament. 2nd ed. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1983.
Newman, Barclay M.
A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament. Stuttgart: United Bible Societies, 1971.
Thayer, Joseph H.
A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament. 4th ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977 (= 1901).
AGENDA
The agenda below is subject to modification according to the needs of the class and the discretion of the professor. Chapters are from the textbook.
