New Testament Greek A (AL1000T)

Content

This unit introduces students to the original language of the New Testament. It uses grammatical-analytical and communicative approaches to language acquisition which involves reading, writing, listening, and speaking in the original language to enable students to begin to read the Greek New Testament with comprehension. Several short passages from the New Testament will be translated.

Learning outcomes

Pedagogy

a) An online pre-sessional self-paced micro-intensive of around one week's content which is available for three weeks before the start of semester b) 12 weekly sessions. Each session consists of the teacher's lessons augmented by the set texts, quizzes and tasks.

Indicative Bibliography

Required Textbook

• Decker, Rodney J. Reading Koine Greek: An Introduction and Integrated Workbook. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014.

Required Original Source One Greek New Testament from list:

• Aland, B. and K. Aland et al, The Greek New Testament with a Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament, 4th ed. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft/New York: United Bible Societies, 1993)
• Aland, B. and K. Aland et al, The Greek New Testament, 5th ed. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft/New York: United Bible Societies, 1993)
• Nestle, Eberhard, and Kurt Aland. Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece. 28th ed. Hendrickson Pub, 2017.
• Tyndale House, Dirk Jongkind, Peter J. Williams, Peter M. Head, and James Patrick, eds. The Greek New Testament. Cambridge Bibles. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017.

Reference Resources

• Bauer, W., F. 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.C., A Primer of Biblical Greek (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007)

• Diggle, James, ed. The Cambridge Greek Lexicon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• Gibson, R. J, and Constantine R Campbell. Reading Biblical Greek - Workbook. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017.
• Gibson, R. J., and Constantine R. Campbell. Reading Biblical Greek: A Grammar for Students. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017.
• Harris, Dana M. Introduction to Biblical Greek Grammar: Elementary Syntax and Linguistics. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2020.
• Jackson, Paul Norman, and George H. Guthrie. Zondervan Compact Greek Lexicon. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic, 2024.
• Montanari, Franco. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek. Edited by Madeleine Goh and Chad Matthew Schroeder. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
• Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar, 2nd edn. Grand Rapids: Zondervan 2003.

Assessment