The Ideal Biblical Greek Program
Posted: April 8th, 2014, 10:01 pm
Let's assume you had control of the full cycle of Greek classes at a university or seminary, covering the Intro to Greek I and II, intermediate I and II, and advanced Greek I and II.
If we lived in the ideal world and attended the ideal school with the ideal Greek curriculum, what would those classes look like?
What kinds of approaches would be used? E.g., would immersion/communicative approach be used for the intro, text reading for intermediate, grammar for advanced?
What vocabulary would be learned? A core portion? All words in the NT used 10 times or more? Include Septuagint vocab and contemporary vocab? How many new words per week?
What textbooks would be used? Mounce? Wallace? Smyth? Buth?
Aside from the NT, what other Hellenistic literature could be included, if any? (I've been wondering lately why some products are marketed as "biblical" Greek, when really they focus solely on the NT and barely give the LXX attention.)
What other class materials and homework would students have? Exercise workbooks? Audio and video components? Flash cards, or flash card software?
Amidst all this discussion of teaching and learning methods, and revamping the way biblical Greek is typically taught, i figure a thread could be started where it all gets meshed together, if possible!
If we lived in the ideal world and attended the ideal school with the ideal Greek curriculum, what would those classes look like?
What kinds of approaches would be used? E.g., would immersion/communicative approach be used for the intro, text reading for intermediate, grammar for advanced?
What vocabulary would be learned? A core portion? All words in the NT used 10 times or more? Include Septuagint vocab and contemporary vocab? How many new words per week?
What textbooks would be used? Mounce? Wallace? Smyth? Buth?
Aside from the NT, what other Hellenistic literature could be included, if any? (I've been wondering lately why some products are marketed as "biblical" Greek, when really they focus solely on the NT and barely give the LXX attention.)
What other class materials and homework would students have? Exercise workbooks? Audio and video components? Flash cards, or flash card software?
Amidst all this discussion of teaching and learning methods, and revamping the way biblical Greek is typically taught, i figure a thread could be started where it all gets meshed together, if possible!