GRK 502: Intermediary New Testament Greek 2 3 Credit Hours
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course aims to equip the student with a basic grasp of New Testament Greek as a foundation for accurately interpreting the New Testament. This includes developing the student’s understanding of the essential elements of Koine Greek such as morphology, grammar, and syntax, as well as training the student to use appropriate resource tools to determine the meaning of the Greek text. It also aims to develop the student’s confidence in working with Greek words by being able to read, pronounce, and find words in alphabetical listings and in the biblical text.
Students are provided with a copy of the Greek New Testament with literal English translation and parsing for each term. While the students are not required to be able to do sight-translating or sight-parsing of the Greek New Testament, they are required to demonstrate skill in understanding grammar and syntax in order to effectively exegete the Greek New Testament.
This course builds on “GRK 502: New Testament Greek 1” (GRK 501) This course is foundational to the preaching and teaching courses, the New Testament book courses, theology courses, and all other courses dealing with the New Testament biblical text. And explains Complex sentences; special verbs; participles; perfect tense verbs, the subjunctive mood, third declensions; vocabulary of 390 most commonly used Greek words; practice reading Greek; use of Greek reference works and commentaries.
- Lecturer: John Reaume