A Reader in Biblical Greek (Eerdmans Language Resources)

by Richard A. Wright

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2022

Overview

A graduated reader of biblical Koine Greek for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek studies.

This intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Through twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings, readers will be exposed to a variety of different genres and authors while still being given enough content from each author to become acquainted with that author’s individual style. Notes within each selection gloss low-frequency words and clarify syntactical intricacies, and each new section of texts gradually increases in its level of difficulty, so that lessons can be worked through sequentially or as stand-alone exercises, as needed.

Wright’s selections are all texts that Christians in the fourth century CE would have read, with intertextual connections between them that will stimulate discussion and reflection on the development of important ideas in the early church. Thus, this useful resource encourages progress both in Koine reading proficiency and in knowledge of Christian tradition.

Key Features

• Notes within each selection gloss low-frequency words and clarifies syntactical intricacies
• Encourages progress both in Koine reading proficiency and in knowledge of Christian tradition
• Provides twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings

Contents

Section I: Texts Exhibiting More Elementary Greek Syntax

• Genesis 17:1–22
• Deuteronomy 6:1–25
• Psalm 2:1–12
• Mark 1:1–20
• Mark 8:22–9:10
• Didache 7–10
• Shepherd of Hermas 36
• Shepherd of Hermas 38

Section II: Texts Exhibiting More Challenging Greek

• Psalm 21:1–32
• Isaiah 40:1–31
• Isaiah 52:13–53:12
• Matthew 2:1–23
• Matthew 5:1–20
• Acts 4:1–22
• Acts 9:1–19
• Revelation 4:1–11
• Epistle of Barnabas 9:1–9
• 1 Clement 5:1–6:4
• 1 Clement 25:1–26:3

Section III: Texts Exhibiting More Sophisticated Greek

• Luke 2:1–38
• Luke 12:1–34
• Romans 4:1–25
• 1 Corinthians 12:1–31a
• Philippians 2:1–30
• James 2:1–26
• 1 Peter 4:1–19

Product Details

• Title: A Reader in Biblical Greek
• Author: Richard A. Wright
• Series: Eerdmans Language Resources
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 215
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Greek language, Biblical › Readers; Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) › Readers
• ISBNs: 9780802879240, 0802879241
• Resource ID: LLS:RDRBBLCLGRK
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:38:29Z

About Richard A. Wright

Richard A. Wright is professor of New Testament in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University, where he teaches courses on the languages and literature connected with the study of the New Testament in its cultural context. His scholarship explores the intersection of the New Testament and early church with Greco-Roman philosophies and religions.