Learning Koine Greek Together

The handouts to the New Testament Greek class are all available here. They are .pdf documents mostly. Eventually we plan on making answer keys as well.

Helpful Link – SBL Greek New Testament

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:27:10 +0000

http://www.sblgnt.com/download/

The Society of Biblical Literature, in keeping with its mission to foster biblical scholarship, is pleased to sponsor, in association with Logos Bible Software, a new, critically edited edition of the Greek New Testament. The SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), which is freely available in electronic form, will be useful to students, teachers, translators, and scholars in a wide variety of settings and contexts.

For Fun

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:11:22 +0000

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2010/08/31/learning-the-greek-alphabet-can-be-heartless/

Online Interlinear with lots of features

admin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:15:45 +0000

http://interlinearbible.org/1_john/1.htm

Some Grammar

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:27:32 +0000

Let us have a look at a sentence:

fox the dog over brown jumps the lazy quick

Something is wrong with it?

The words seems mixed up to us because in English the place the word has in the sentence, tells us what job it has.

So that if I move the words around we get

The quick brown fox | jumps | over the lazy dog.

Then we know who is doing what to whom.

In Greek you can tell who is jumping not by the place in the sentence but the ending on the words.

I am going to put numbers on the end of the English words so you know what I mean

fox-1 the-1 dog-3 over-3 brown-1 jumps-2 the-3 lazy-3 quick-1 is

The quick brown fox | jumps | over the lazy dog.

If I changed the endings

fox-3 the-3 dog-1 over-3 brown-1 jumps-2 the-1 lazy-3 quick-1
Now what would be our sentence?

The quick brown dog | jumps | over the lazy fox.

So the endings tells us what job the word has in the sentence. In Koine Greek the ending on the word tells us the job it has in the sentence not its place in a sentence.

Some more cards

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:35:18 +0000

see this note before printing out

Prepositions

Conjunctions

You will notice I have put the vocabulary words in the phrases that Jeff Vann used. I have discovered that my brain learns the key words faster in a phrase.

Vocab Cards

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:26:16 +0000

Here is a pdf of the Greek words we are learning. If you have a printer that will double side ( and set it to landscape) you should be able to print them out and cut them out. Otherwise you will have to put the English on the other side or glue them together ( see note) . Cut them up to make some drill cards. You might like to laminate them.

( Note the English words are mirror image in order so they match up on the double side printing . If you don’t have double sided printing use Jeff Vann’s handout to get the translation!)

Let me know if you find any errors – Rachel found 3 for me!

If you want a Greek font for your computer go here

Some exercises to help

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:40:12 +0000

I found it helpful to say the Greek alphabet and see if I could write it in greek letters. You can get the names of the greek letters from this sheet.

So I would say to myself “alpha, beta, gamma…” then try and write the names of the greek letters using greek letters.

Jeff Vann has a great list of Bible names which we sounded out then tried to work out the anglicized version of the name.

I have put some of them on a sheet here to help with some suggestions to help.

If you find errors please leave a comment!

Story 1

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:36:51 +0000

I have begun to write a few little stories in Greek.

The children also have written a few sentences of their own. I have found that they want to use their newly learned vocabulary words and making little stories is a great way to do that. Vocabulary is quickly learned this way.

Story 1

I will probably break this story into smaller sections and update this post later.