Melville Divinity Hall
BL102 · 6 credits · Undergraduate

New Testament Greek I-II

Syllabus

  1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

    • The Importance of the Original Languages (Christ the Center) Miles Van Pelt (Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
    • Introduccion al Griego (video album, 14 slide decks) Pablo Armero (Miami International Seminary) 14 topics (alphabet, declensions, prepositions, adjectives, verbs, participles, pronouns) Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara
    • Griego del Nuevo Testamento (coine), course on Machen's grammar (video album) Seminario Reformado Guadalajara (instructor not named on the page) Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara Instructors are not named on the course pages (the site belongs to Dr. Larry Trotter, Florida Coast Church / Knox Theological Seminary adjunct); the Hebrew and Greek courses are by Mario Porras and Pablo Armero (MINTS), whose church standing is unconfirmed. The site also hosts PDFs of in-copyright textbooks...
  2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

    • New Testament Greek for Beginners J. Gresham Machen Open source Primary text 1923. Public domain Instructors are not named on the course pages (the site belongs to Dr. Larry Trotter, Florida Coast Church / Knox Theological Seminary adjunct); the Hebrew and Greek courses are by Mario Porras and Pablo Armero (MINTS), whose church standing is unconfirmed. The site also hosts PDFs of in-copyright textbooks...
    • Griego del Nuevo Testamento para principiantes (Spanish edition of Machen) J. Gresham Machen Open source Supplementary Free online Instructors are not named on the course pages (the site belongs to Dr. Larry Trotter, Florida Coast Church / Knox Theological Seminary adjunct); the Hebrew and Greek courses are by Mario Porras and Pablo Armero (MINTS), whose church standing is unconfirmed. The site also hosts PDFs of in-copyright textbooks...
    • Greek New Testament, Textus Receptus (Scrivener, 1894) F. H. A. Scrivener Open source Primary text 1894. Public domain
    • A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek G. B. Winer Open source Supplementary 1882. Public domain Not Reformed confessional teachers; none teaches doctrine in these volumes. Kept as supplementary look-up grammars only, as the raw file already had them; Green (Princeton) and Machen remain the required grammars.
    • A Grammar of New Testament Greek, vol. 1: Prolegomena James Hope Moulton Open source Supplementary 1908. Public domain Not Reformed confessional teachers; none teaches doctrine in these volumes. Kept as supplementary look-up grammars only, as the raw file already had them; Green (Princeton) and Machen remain the required grammars.
    • A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research A. T. Robertson Broken link Supplementary 1914. Public domain Not Reformed confessional teachers; none teaches doctrine in these volumes. Kept as supplementary look-up grammars only, as the raw file already had them; Green (Princeton) and Machen remain the required grammars.
  3. Assignment Write a research paper of 10-20 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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  4. In Spanish (supplementary) Spanish-language lectures and readings, supplementary. The English lectures above remain the core; strong English lectures are translated rather than replaced by weaker Spanish ones.

Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.