GREK 101: Koine Greek I

This course is a standard introduction to Koine Greek. Specifically, this course is primarily concerned with writing Koine Greek and translating Greek passages from the Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures, the Greek Christian scriptures, the Church Fathers, as well as selected writings from the historians Josephus and Philo of Alexandria. The course content for Koine Greek I includes: writing and pronouncing the Greek alphabet, pronunciation of Greek words, formation and translation of the first, second, and third declensions, formation and translation of the entire active, passive, and middle indicative verbal systems of ω and μι verbs, the relative pronoun, and the formation and translation of the present participle.