Can Someone Recommend a Good Home Study Course in NT Greek?

Lucian · Post by **Lucian** » Sat 26 June 2004 12:13 am

Can you?

And can you tell me where I can purchase such a course at a reasonable price?

I want to read the NT and the Septuagint OT in the original language.

Aristokles · Post by **Aristokles** » Sat 26 June 2004 12:56 pm

Lucian,
It's a big order to Home Study Koine.
Check out:

http://www.textkit.com

(Also linked from this site's Portal page)

The tools available there, and the large number of public domain textbooks, are free .pdfs.
Links are available for hard copy publications.
Great language forum for Greek and Latin,too.

Demetri

Lucian · Post by **Lucian** » Sun 27 June 2004 12:29 am

Thanks, Aristokles. I have bookmarked that site.

Do you think it would be much better to learn Koine Greek through a college class rather than home study?

Aristokles · Post by **Aristokles** » Mon 28 June 2004 9:54 pm

Lucian wrote:
Thanks, Aristokles. I have bookmarked that site.

Do you think it would be much better to learn Koine Greek through a college class rather than home study?

If I had access to a college course, I would jump at the chance. However, most colleges concentrate on Homeric and/or Attic Greek. Koine can probably be approached from a basis of modern first, or the classical first. If you find a Koine class - take it. If your alternatives are one or both of the others (modern/classical) only, try the home route first.

Demetri

Lucian · Post by **Lucian** » Mon 28 June 2004 10:22 pm

Aristokles -

Thanks. I guess I will stick with home study unless I happen across a convenient college course.

I want to learn Latin, too, as there are many old documents in that language not available in English.

IsaacDavid · Post by **IsaacDavid** » Thu 29 July 2004 12:57 pm

Dear Lucian

Home study can be very difficult. Whichever grammar you use, you will probably make rapid progress at the beginning, then you will get to a point when each lesson takes a little bit longer to remember and discouragement may set in.

One remedy for this is to join a course, the other is to start reading one of the Gospels - St John is the easiest because it is quite repetitive - that way you pick up vocabulary and points of grammar along the way as well as actually reading something.

I found the best way to do this was to find some other people interested in learning and reading the Gospel together. I was fortunate to discover that a friend who is the Chaplain at a local hospital formerly taught NT Greek at a theological college. We meet in his office once a week with two other people. I have found it enormously helpful.