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How to fulfill the Greek requirement:
You may acquire this reading knowledge of Greek through college courses, through self-study, through a private tutor, or through the intensive seven-week summer course at LTSS. Regardless of which option you use, you must take a written competency examination. For those students who live outside of Columbia and who have learned Greek outside the summer course, the examination may be sent from the seminary to a proctor at the student's location; the exam will returned and graded at LTSS. Those who wish to take the exam in this way must contact Dr. Brent Driggers (spring/summer 2008) or Dr. Brian Peterson (spring/summer 2009). The student must arrange to take the exam and have it returned to the seminary by June 1. Those who will take the seven-week intensive summer course will take the competency exam at the end of that course.
The main textbook is:
N. Clayton Croy, A Primer of Biblical Greek. Eerdmans, 1999.
In addition,
you will need to purchase two primary tools for working with the Greek
New Testament:
Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th
edition (Nestle-Aland).
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian
Literature,
3rd edition, edited by Bauer & Danker.
These books are available at the Augsburg Bookstore on the LTSS campus (803) 691-1118.
8:30 Morning Prayer in Christ Chapel
9:00-10:30 Class (some of this time will be spent in small groups)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Class
1:30-3:00 Work in small groups
The instructor will have two student Teaching Assistants during the summer. The three of us will "rotate" through the small groups, where a good deal of practice and translation will be done together. Studying Greek works best as a team effort. Sharing our efforts and "tricks" will make learning easier for everyone.