GR1E01  GREEK, I (A.Y. 2024/2025)

• Accademic Unit

  Faculty of Theology

• Course

  Baccalaureate in Theology

Objectives : Introduce the student into the broader linguistic and exegetical importance of the New Testament Greek.

Learning outcomes : The student will achieve the capacity to read, use a dictionary, analyze grammatically and comprehend simple texts from the gospels of Mark and John.

Contents: Alphabet, pronunciation, transliteration. Nouns and adjectives: function of cases and declension. Pronouns: personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative and indefinite. Prepositions and adverbs. Verbs, their function, tenses, moods and conjugation: present indicative, imperative, infinitive, participle and subjunctive; imperfect and future indicative active; the meaning of the active, middle and passive voices; the verb eimi and the main deponent verbs.

Methodology : Each class session will consist of three parts: introduction of the new material, reading the New Testament, practical exercises. There will be homeworks assigned as well.

Means of evaluation: There will be a midterm and a final exam. The professor will explain the details at the beginning of the course.

• Information
• Teachers
• Lesson schedule/Room
• Bibliography

Information

• Semestre: 1° Semestre
• ECTS: 4

Teachers

Vasile BABOTA

Lesson schedule/Room

Semester	Day	From	To	Room	Floor	Building	Notes
1° Semestre	Giovedì	15.00	15.45	C215	2	Centrale
1° Semestre	Giovedì	16.00	16.45	C215	2	Centrale

Bibliography

• Duff, J., The Elements of New Testament Greek, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005 (3rd ed.); Aland, K. – Black, M. – Martini, C.M. – Metzger, B.M. – Wikgren, A., The Greek New Testament, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft & American Bible Society, Stuttgart 20145; includes A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament (rev. ed by B.M. Newman).