New Testament Greek - MyLutherNet

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New Testament Greek
LUTHER SEMINARY
PROFESSORS MARY HINKLE SHORE & KYLE FEVER
FALL 2011
Greek course books & BibleWorks,
AD 21st c., Midwestern USA.
Codex Sinaiticus, AD mid-4th c., Monastery
of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt.
Fragment of the Greek translation of Joshua, AD late 2nd c., Egypt.
Course Information
Which is the better
understanding of what
the risen Jesus says to
Mary Magdalene when
she recognizes him in
the garden (John 20:17):
“Touch me not” (KJV)
or “Do not cling to
me” (ESV)?
Is the devil asking Jesus to
prove his identity when he says to
him, “If you are the
Son of God...” in the
temptation (Matthew 4),
or is the argument not
about identity but about
what kind of behavior
befits the Son of God?
Is it accurate to use the phrase,
“brothers and sisters” to translate
the Greek that used be translated with the
English word, “brethren,” or is the
addition of “and sisters” to “brothers”
a modern inclusion not represented in
the original language?
The answers to these questions
and dozens—perhaps hundreds—of
others about the scriptures require
knowledge of the language in which
the New Testament was written, Greek.
That language is what this class is all
about.
In this class, we will study what
is known as koine Greek.
“Koine” means “common,” and
it refers to the kind of Greek
that people throughout the parts
of the world conquered by
Alexander the Great spoke at
the time of Christ. The New Testament
was first written in Greek and later
translated into many languages, and
eventually into English.
Course Materials are insid
e
MyLutherNet. https://
myluthernet.luthersem.ed
u/
ICS/Academics/LG/
LG___1200/2011_FALG___1200-50/
Most of what you need for the class
is in our MyLutherNet web site. This
syllabus will orient you to our hopes for
your learning, the course requirements,
and the schedule of activities we have
planned. We look forward to working
with you.
Catalog Description of LG1200-50: An introduction to Greek grammar and syntax. Reading and analysis of selected New Testament texts
explores the nature of translation and its relation to interpretation. Help is given in effective use of resources such as grammars, lexicons, concordances, parsing guides, and interlinears. Mastery of basic vocabulary is stressed. Prerequisite course for Master of Divinity degree program.
Enduring
Understandings
By “enduring understandings,” we
mean that way of thinking, acting, and
imagining that will be with you six
months or six years from now as a result
of having taken this class. What will your
“big picture” take-away be from this
course?
Six months after the course, we
hope you will understand that:
1. While Bible translation is art as
well as science, requiring judgment
calls and educated guessing, it need
not be thought of as either too
mystical or technical for you and
others to understand.
Your Instructors
In MyLutherNet, we have included short video introductions of ourselves.
Mary’s Contact Information
[email protected]
Office: 651-641-3248
Cell: 651-238-6391
The best times to reach me are afternoons
and early evening, before 9 p.m.. I am
unavailable from 8-10 a.m. and from 11-11:30
a.m. weekdays. Sundays I am away from
email, phone, and work.
Mary Hinkle Shore
2. Bible software, diglot texts,
lexicons, and other helps for working
with the New Testament in Greek
enhance the experience of reading
the New Testament and reflecting
on its relevance for today.
Kyle’s Contact Information
3. You can do this. That is, you
have what you need to glean insights
from the Greek text of the New
Testament in order to enliven your
study, teaching, and preaching.
I am available most times, but the best
times to contact me are from 1-4 p.m.
most days. Sundays are my day to not
be academic.
[email protected]
Phone: 651-472-2338
Kyle Fever
Knowledge & Skills
Throughout the course, we are
aiming at several elements of
knowledge and several skills for
your work at seminary and
beyond.
Key Knowledge
By the end of the course, you will:
• Explain translation differences and defend your own
translation preference for a given New Testament text.
Key Skills
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Use Bible study software to glean data for interpreting
New Testament texts.
• Be able to translate the 300 most common Greek words
in the New Testament from Greek to English.
• Analyze different translations of the same New
Testament text and explain why they differ.
• Grasp the fundamentals of English and Greek grammar.
• Complete word studies informed by an understanding of
the multiple contexts in which a word is used.
• Recognize the basic principles of determining the
reliability of manuscripts of the Greek New Testament.
• Translate portions of the New Testament with the aid of
references, such as lexicons and grammatical helps.
Textbooks & Other Materials
Books & Helps to Buy
Croy, N. Clayton. Primer of Biblical
Greek with CD-ROM. ISBN 978-0-80286000-2.
NET Bible Novum Testamentum Graece/
NET Bible Ne w Testament. ISBN:
0-7375-0060-3.
Mounce, William. Biblical Greek: A
Compact Guide. ISBN: 978-0-31032606-9.
Mounce,William. Biblical Greek
Laminated Sheet. ISBN 978-0-31026294-7.
Class Lexicon
BDAG, also known as Danker, et al.,
eds. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian
Literature. 3rd Ed. ISBN 978-02260-3933-6.
This is a dictionary with the words
written in Greek and the definitions
written in English. If you are buying a
software program like BibleWorks or
Accordance, you will probably want to
buy the digital version of this lexicon
rather than the print version.
It is difficult to imagine using your
Greek through seminary and beyond
without your own copy of BDAG. The
only reason we did not require it is that
we don’t want you to spend $150 on the
book and then three months from now
wish you had bought the digital version.
Software
Recommended: BibleWorks 9 (PC) or
Accordance (Mac), Scholars Collection,
or Olive Tree (mobile computing).
Luther Seminary bookstore offers
discounts on BibleWorks & Accordance.
Contact
them
at
[email protected] or
651-641-3440.
It is OK to use free online Bible
search resources (such as e-sword.net) to
complete the Software mini-project as
long as you can search a Greek text with
the one you choose and can figure out
which Greek text you are searching.
Materials Provided
Perry, Peter. “Brushing Up English to
Learn Greek.” Privately printed, 2010.
Handouts, PowerPoint Mini-Lectures,
Links to Other Web Sites, etc.
All of these are linked from the
Weekly Assignments page inside
MyLutherNet.
Real Time Interaction
For one 50-minute session a week, you are
required to meet with other students and an
instructor via web and phone. Sign-up for
times happens in the first week of class.
Connecting two ways simultaneously:
We use (1) Adobe Connect to give you a
whiteboard and webcam view of us and our
computer screen. We add (2) a standard phone
line conference call so we can all hear each
other.
You will need:
• Flash on your computer. If you do not
have it when you log into the web address
below, you will be prompted to install it.
• A high speed internet connection if
possible.
• A computer that is close to the phone
you will be using to call into the conference
call.
How to connect:
To participate in the conference call, dial
651-523- 1772.
Then, when
prompted, enter
248 as your
conference
number.
Then, point
your browser to
h t t p : / /
luthersem.adobeconnect.com/greekfall2011/. Login as a Guest with any name
you choose.
Brushing Up English To Learn Greek
People consistently notice that learning Greek requires more
knowledge of English grammar than they may ever have had before, or that they
forgot sometime after Junior High. “What is a direct object again? What does the word
‘antecedent’ mean? I know there is a difference between an adjective and an adverb,
but I’m not sure what it is.” You get the idea.
Our colleague, Peter Perry, Visiting Professor in Biblical Studies at the
Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, has developed a resource to review English
grammar alongside your work with Croy’s Greek textbook. Peter has written what
amounts to an accompanying textbook for Croy. As he continues to refine the work, he
has made his book (in .pdf form) available to us free of charge. We are using it for the
first time in this fall’s class. It is available as one of the Week 1 resources.
Assessments
Conference Calls - 10%
Each week, you participate in at least one
50-minute conference call with 4-6 other
students & one instructor. (Mary & Kyle
will rotate through the conferences.)
You will sign up for a time during the first
week of class. You may attend additional
conference calls if they are helpful to you.
Only one each week will count toward
the requirement.
G r a m m a r
Quizzes - 15%
These quizzes are
to be taken
without notes or
other helps and
have a 30-minute time limit. The weekly
quizzes must be completed by midnight
on Saturdays.
Vocabulary Quizzes - 15%
Weekly vocabulary quizzes test your
accumulating knowledge of words in the
lessons from Croy, as well as some
important verb forms you will learn in
later weeks of the term. They are to be
taken without any books or helps.
Mini-Projects - 15%
Late in the semester, you will complete
five small projects in which you practice
skills you can use in New Testament
courses and in ministry:
Comparing Translations (Wk 9)
Using a Lexicon (Wk 10)
Text Criticism (Wk 11)
Using Bible Software (Wk 12)
Translating 1 Jn 1 (Wk 13)
Comprehensive Vocabulary Exam
You may complete the comprehensive
vocabular y exam anytime before
December 17 (midnight). The exam
covers the approximately 300 words used
50 or more times in the New Testament.
Mid-Term Exams & Final Exam
Exams are all open book and open note.
They are due in Weeks 4, 6, and 13.
30%
15%
10%
15%
15%
15%
Conference Calls
Weekly Grammar Quizzes
Weekly Vocabulary Quizzes
Mini-Projects
Cumulative Vocabulary Exam
Three Exams
Pass/Marginal/Fail Grading and Letter Grades
Unless you request a letter grade, all courses in the M. Div. and M. A. programs at Luther
Seminary are currently offered on a Pass, Marginal, Fail grading scale. In Greek, 70% is the
lowest Passing grade. 60% is the lowest Marginal grade.
All materials will be graded with percentages through the term. If you would like a letter grade
on your transcript, you must inform instructors by the end of the second week of the term. Just
email Mary with your request before September 19.
FAQs
Why memorize all that vocabulary?
With all the support that software
programs offer, you may think that
committing 300 words to memory sounds
like busywork. Yet in order to work in the
language, even with software and other
helps, you need to be able to look at it
without a lot of anxiety.
Memorizing vocabulary
means that you can look
at a verse or a paragraph
of Greek and feel the way
you feel in a familiar
place: even if you have
been away for a while,
you recognize a few
things. You are pretty sure
you can find your way
around.
W h e re d o we fi n d
course materials, take
quizzes and submit
mini-projects?
All of these materials and activities are in
MyLutherNet. Click through the
navigation at the left of the course home
page to familiarize yourself with the
layout of the site.
When do conference calls begin?
Our first call is on Tuesday, September 6.
How do we sign in to conference
calls?
Conference calls require (1) a phone, and
(2) a high speed internet connection if
you want to see your instructor and their
whiteboard use. Details on where & how
to log in and call are on the previous page
of the syllabus.
Do we need Greek fonts?
We hope we have put all course materials
in a unicode font that any
computer can read. If
you run into trouble, let
Mary or Kyle know.
If you want to type in a
Greek unicode font,
Gentium is free at http://
scripts.sil.org.
On a Mac (and maybe a
PC too?) you can type in
Greek by adding a Greek
k ey b o a rd i n S y s t e m
Preferences. Write us for
more info.
Do you really think we won’t cheat
on the weekly quizzes?
Yes. And since the weekly vocabulary &
grammar quizzes are preparing you for
three open-book exams and five miniprojects, you have as much of an interest
in a truthful assessment of your weekly
progress as we do. We all need to know
what’s sticking & what isn’t.
Study Time in Greek
The weekly conference calls and quizzes are
intended to keep you from feeling isolated
and ensure you will not fall so far behind
that you cannot catch up. Here are some
tips for staying current with the work
required.
A Typical Week
Plan to spend ten to twelve hours each week on your class. Here is an example of how
to divide the work.
DAY
ACTIVITIES
The Pomodoro Technique
Participate in conference call.
Consider studying in 25-minute blocks, with
a 5-minute break between. Don’t study for
more than two hours before you take a
longer break.
Read web page and watch mini-lecture videos.
Monday &
Tuesday
Body Language
Listen to the vocabulary recordings. Speak
out loud as you study. Consider writing your
own vocabulary cards rather than buying
them ready made. Practice making the small
case letters in your own handwriting. Sing
the alphabet. Use all your senses to anchor
what you are learning.
Wednesday
Take Time Off, Not Too Much
Thursday
Both Kyle and Mary are available to offer
one-on-one tutoring. Time does not permit
us to be personal tutors at every turn, but we
do want to help clear up confusion before it
turns to exasperation.
Work through 2 practice sentences in Perry
and in Croy, & check your work with their
answer keys. As you work, review handouts and
mini-lectures as needed.
Begin any needed memory work on grammar
concepts or endings.
50 min.
25 min.
25 min.
100 min.
25 min.
4 hours
50 min.
25 min.
2 hours
25 min.
Study vocabulary.
Try to take one day a week off. You’ll burn
out if you do this 7 days a week.
Call or Email a Lifeline
Read Croy & Perry as needed.
Begin studying the week’s vocabulary.
Learn more about the Pomodoro Technique
at www.pomodorotechnique.com.
Try not to take more than two days in a row
off. You’ll lose too much ground if you take
too many days off in a row.
Study handouts for the week.
APPROXIMATE
TIME
Work through more practice sentences &
check your work. As you work, review handouts
and mini-lectures as needed.
Continue needed memory work on grammar
concepts or endings.
Study vocabulary.
50 min.
25 min.
2 hours
25 min.
Friday
Review materials.
100 min.
2 hours
Saturday
Take quizzes.
50 min.
1 hour
Sunday
Take a Greek-free day.
Getting Help
MyLutherNet. To find MyLutherNet, go to https://
myluthernet.luthersem.edu. You will need to log in with your
seminary username and password. From there, you can navigate
to your current courses. Greek should be listed among them. To
get help with various MyLutherNet functions, click the “Help”
tab inside MyLutherNet.
Luther Seminary Help Desk. With questions about
how technology is (or is not) working for you in the class, write to
[email protected] or to [email protected]. You
should have a reply promptly during the week, and within a day
or two on the weekend. Also during office hours, you can call
the help desk at 651-641-3462. The technology help wiki is at
https://wiki.luthersem.edu/bin/view/TechnologyHelp/
WebHome.
BibleWorks Wiki. If you have purchased BibleWorks
and are beginning to work with it, check out the resources at our
own Luther Seminary BibleWorks wiki. (As a student, you can
also add pages to the wiki. Help us build the knowledge base as
you figure out new things to do with the software.) The address
is http://wiki.luthersem.edu/bin/view/BibleWorks/WebHome.
Topics & Assignments Due REVISED 9/6/11
The original version had the week of Sept. 12 missing.
WEEK
DATE
LESSONS IN CROY &
PERRY
ASSESSMENTS
1
September 6
Lesson 1: Alphabet
Lesson 2: Verbs
Pre-Assignment Due anytime this week.
Vocabulary & Grammar Quizzes 1 Due Saturday (midnight).
2
September 12
Lesson 3: First Declension Nouns
Lesson 4 Second Declension Nouns
3
September 19
Lesson 5: Adjectives
Lesson 6: Prepositions
4
September 26
Lesson 7-8: Pronouns
Lesson 9: Present Middle/Passive
Exam 1 Due Saturday (midnight).
5
October 3
Lessons 10-11 Imperfect
Lesson 12: Future
6
October 10
Lessons 13-14: Aorist
Lesson 15: Perfect & Pluperfect
7
October 17
Lesson 16: Aorist & Future Passive
Lesson 17: Third Declension
8
October 24
Lesson 18: Participles I
Lesson 19: Participles II
9
October 31
Lesson 20: Participles III
Exam 2 Due Saturday (midnight).
Mini-project 1 Due Saturday (midnight).
10
November 7
Lesson 21: Contract Verbs
Lesson 22: Liquid Verbs
11
November 14
Lesson 23: Subjunctive
Lesson 24: Infinitive
—
November 21
12
November 28
Lesson 25: Third Declension
Lesson 26: Imperative
Mini-Project 4 Due Saturday (midnight).
13
December 5
Lesson 27: Relative Pronoun
Lessons 28-29: δίδωμι and τίθημι
Cumulative Vocabulary Exam Due Saturday (midnight)
Mini-Project 5 Due Saturday (midnight).
14
December 12
No New Material
Exam 3 Due Wednesday, December 14 (midnight).
Thanksgiving Break — No Assignments Due

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