Advanced Greek Reading (AL3000P)

Content

This unit is designed to consolidate and develop the language skills gained in New Testament Greek A and B. The unit concentrates on using these skills for the purposes of translation, textual analysis and exegesis. A range of texts from the NT, LXX, and early Christianity (e.g. the Didache and other noncanonical texts) will be read as inductive means to developing skills in translation, applying grammatical learnings, identifying syntax and doing exegesis.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

2 semesters of Koine Greek and an introductory level New Testament unit.

Pedagogy

This is a seminar style class in which students practice reading and translation with the guidance of the lecturer. Each class will include revision of grammar or introduction of new concepts.

Indicative Bibliography

• Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle-Aland 28th or 29th edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012-2026. (required text)
• Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland. The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Eerdmans / Brill, 1987.
• Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis, and St. George Stock. Grammar of Septuagint Greek: With Selected Readings, Vocabularies, and Updated Indexes. Hendrickson Publishers, 2001.
• Croy, Clayton, A Primer of Biblical Greek. Eerdmans, 1999.
• Danker, Frederick William, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
• McLean, B. H., Hellenistic and Biblical Greek: A Graduated Reader. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Metzger, Bruce M. and Ehrman, Bart D. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration. 4th ed. Clarendon, 2005.
• Porter, Stanley E., Idioms of the Greek New Testament. 2nd ed; BLG 2. Sheffield Academic, 1994.
• Wallace, Daniel B., Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Zondervan, 1996.
• Wright, N. T., and Michael F. Bird. The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians. SPCK, 2019.

Assessment