Lecturer: Ms Karin Soh
Venue: On Campus
Time: Wednesday, 9.00 am – 12.00 pm
3 units
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course covers the basic categories of phonology, morphology and syntax of elementary New Testament Greek. It is part two of two semesters of elementary Biblical Greek. The lectures in class will follow the sequence of contents in the required textbook.
Upon completion of this course, students should acquire the following skills:
- Master the Greek alphabet and how to write them
- Identify parts of speech in Greek (parsing)
- Understand basic Greek grammar
- Translate simple Greek sentences
- Master the vocabulary and its meaning
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar, 4th rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019.
Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Workbook, 4th rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019
RECOMMENED RESOURCES
Danker, Frederick William, ed. A Greek-English Lexicon for the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000.
Institute for NT Textual Research. Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle – Aland 28th Revised Standard Edition) Stuttgart: German Bible Societies 2012.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
| All Programs | Reading / Workbook | Quizzes | Mid-Term Exam | Final Exam |
| Grading | 10% | 30% | 25% | 35% |
| Due Dates | Weekly | Weekly | 2 Sept | 28 Oct |
CLASS SCHEDULE
| Date | Topic | Required Reading |
| June 24 | Verbal Roots (Patterns 2-4) | Chapter 20 |
| July 1 | Imperfect Indicative | Chapter 21 |
| July 8 | Second Aorist (Active & Middle Indicative) | Chapter 22 |
| July 15 | First Aorist Active And Middle Indicative | Chapter 23 |
| July 22 | Aorist and Future Passive Indicative | Chapter 24 |
| July 29 | Perfect Indicative | Chapter 25 |
| Aug 5 | Introduction to Participles Imperfective (Present) Adverbial Participles | Chapters 26 & 27 |
| Aug 12 | Perfective (Aorist) Adverbial Participles | Chapter 28 |
| Aug 19 & 26 | Mid-Semester Break | |
| Sept 2 | Mid-Term Exam Adjectival Participles | Chapter 29 |
| Sept 9 | Combinative (Perfect) Participles and Genitive Absolutes | Chapter 30 |
| Sept 16 | Malaysia Day | |
| Sept 23 | Subjunctive | Chapter 31 |
| Sept 30 | Infinitive | Chapter 32 |
| Oct 7 | Imperative | Chapter 33 |
| Oct 14 | MI verbs | Chapters 34-36 |
| Oct 21 | Study Week | |
| Oct 28 | Final Exam |