Module Level
Level 8 (Undergraduate)
Time Allowance
Lectures 10 hours; Assignments 10 hours; Private Study 12 hours
Assessment
Continuous Assessment 20%; Final Examination 80%
Module Aims
To consolidate and build upon the knowledge of Biblical Greek acquired in BL 181.
Indicative Syllabus:
- Biblical Greek morphology
- Biblical Greek syntax
- Biblical Greek vocabulary
- Translating Greek texts: Septuagint, New Testament and Church Fathers
- Linguistics and Biblical Greek
As the Introduction to Biblical Greek BL 181 is delivered in Semester 1, Intermediate Biblical Greek BL 282 follows in Semester 2
Learning Outcomes
- — familiarity with more advanced elements of Biblical Greek morphology and syntax
- — enlarged Biblical Greek vocabulary
- — familiarity with the basic reference tools for the study of Biblical Greek
- — Students will have read a number of un-adapted Biblical Greek texts
Bibliography
- — Duff, Jeremy, and John William Wenham. The Elements of New Testament Greek. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- — Ranjar, Clifard Sunil. Grammar of the New Testament Greek. Subsidia Biblica 52; Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2020
- — Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece. 28th Edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft; 2012.