Basics of New Testament Greek

A one-semester introduction to New Testament Greek for readers with no prior Greek: elementary grammar and enough vocabulary to begin reading the Greek text of the Gospel of John with a lexicon in hand. The course compresses the Korean original's fifteen chapters into the same fifteen (0-14), covering the same grammatical ground with fresh explanations, fresh paradigm drills, and fresh reading passages rather than a translation.

Chapter 1 covers the alphabet, pronunciation, breathing marks, accents, and syllable division. Chapter 2 introduces the case system through second- and first-declension nouns. Chapter 3 covers the article and the three uses of the adjective. Chapter 4 covers prepositions, personal pronouns, and the verb 'to be' in the present. Chapter 5 covers the present indicative in all three voices. Chapter 6 covers contract verbs. Chapter 7 covers the imperfect indicative and closes with a cumulative review for the midterm. Chapter 8 covers third-declension nouns. Chapter 9 covers the future tense and the first aorist. Chapter 10 covers the second (strong) aorist and its most common irregular verbs. Chapters 11-12 cover the participle: its forms, the present participle, the aorist participle, and its adverbial uses. Chapter 13 covers the subjunctive, the imperative, and a first look at conditional sentences. Chapter 14 closes the course with guided reading in John 1, instruction in using a lexicon (Strong's numbers, BDAG), and a comprehensive review.

Greek is quoted from the instructor's own knowledge of the New Testament text (no local Greek database exists to check against, unlike the WEB English database used for English Scripture quotations - flagged for human review). English Scripture is quoted from the World English Bible. Readers are mostly not native English speakers; this course assumes no prior exposure to any inflected language, so grammatical terms (case, declension, aspect) are defined in the sentence that introduces them, not deferred to a glossary. Where Greek grammarians genuinely disagree - on verbal aspect versus traditional Aktionsart, on whether 'deponency' is a real category, on how much weight the article's presence or absence bears in a given construction - this course names the disagreement rather than picking a side for the student to memorize as settled fact.