I'm teaching a Kairos continuing education class at Luther Seminary this month on how to get your Greek serviceable again if it's been a while since you worked with it. Here's the schedule, pending approval from the Kairos office. You can register here.
Retooling Greek for Parish Ministry
June 21-25, 2010
Luther Seminary - Stub Hall Lounge
Mary Hinkle Shore, professor of New Testament
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Monday
1-2:30 p.m. Welcome, Introductions, Shape of the Week; Vocabulary
2:30-2:45 p.m. Break
2:45-3:40 p.m. The Article
3:40-3:50 p.m. Break
3:50-4:40 p.m. Verbs
4:40 p.m. Class ends
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Tuesday
8:30-9:45 a.m. Participles
10 a.m. Chapel and Break
10:45 a.m. Little Words: Prepositions, Conjunctions, & Particles
12:15 p.m. Class ends
1:30-3:00 p.m. Optional afternoon session on BibleWorks software
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Wednesday
8:30-9:45 a.m. Infinitives, Nouns & Adjectives, Pronouns
10 a.m. Chapel and Break
10:45 a.m. Studying Words: Using Concordance Tools & Lexicons
12:30 p.m. Class ends
1:30-3:00 p.m. Optional afternoon session on Accordance Bible software
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Thursday
8:30-9:45 a.m. Process for Greek in Sermon Preparation (using texts for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost).
10 a.m. Chapel and Break
10:45 a.m. Process for Greek in Sermon Preparation, part two.
12:15 p.m. Class ends
1:30-3:00 p.m. Optional afternoon session on web tools for Greek study
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Friday
8:30-9:45 a.m. Process for Using Greek in Bible Study Preparation
10 a.m. Chapel and Break
10:45 a.m. Resource Fair & Further Study Options
12:30 p.m. Class ends
Required Reading
Webb, Joseph M. and Robert Kysar, Greek for Preachers. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2002.
Shore, Mary Hinkle. “How Do I Keep My Greek (or Get It Back)?” Working Preacher, posted 11/16/09. URL http://www.workingpreacher.org/texts.aspx?article_id=278, accessed May 31, 2010.
Other Resources
The bookstore will have two laminated Greek study guides on hand from Zondervan, an introductory one by William Mounce and an intermediate one by Daniel Wallace.