NT028-712 - Introduction to Greek Exegesis (John's Gospel)

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  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • Category developing unit
    B
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

LA006-612

Corequisites

96cps of study, including 36 cps at AQF level 6; NT001-512, NT001-712 or NT003-512, NT003-712

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT442. Unit exclusions: NT017-612, NT017-712, NT017-812, NT016-612, NT016-712, NT016-812

Set Text Greek

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses, and the original language set text requirement of the Master of Divinity.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Functional knowledge and understanding of the goals and methods of exegesis with reference to the Gospel of John in the Greek text

B. Be able to

1. Critically Analyse the goals and methods of exegesis with reference to the Gospel of John in the Greek text
2. Discuss various perspectives on the themes and theological teachings of the Gospel of John in the Greek text
3. Translate and Exegete selected passages of the Greek text of the Gospel of John

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying ‘Introduction to Greek Exegesis (John’s Gospel)’ to New Testament exegesis, contemporary Christian living and ministry practice

Content

  1. The goals and methods of Greek exegesis;
  2. The theology, purpose, history, materials, and methods of textual criticism of the Greek New Testament;
  3. The major historical, literary and theological issues and themes relevant to the interpretation of the Gospel of John;
  4. Exegesis of sections of the Gospel of John equivalent to three to four chapters.

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

Prescribed:

D.A. Black, It's still Greek to me: an easy-to-understand guide to intermediate Greek. Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Books, 1998 or an equivalent Intermediate Greek Grammar.

 

Recommended:

 

Greek Grammar and Syntax

Wallace, Daniel B., Greek grammar beyond the basics, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Young, R. A., Intermediate New Testament Greek: A Linguistic and Exegetical Approach, Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1994.

 

Greek Exegesis

Blomberg, C. and J. F. Markley. A handbook of New Testament exegesis. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010.

Fee, G. D. New Testament exegesis: a handbook for students and pastors. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.

Guthrie, G.H., and J.S. Duvall. Biblical Greek exegesis: a graded approach to learning intermediate and advanced Greek. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.

Porter, Stanley E., Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testament, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.!

 

Linguistics, reference works and special studies

Campbell, C. R., Verbal aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative: Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament, New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Campbell, C. R.,  Basics of verbal aspect in biblical Greek, Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan, 2008.

Campbell, C. R., Verbal aspect and non-indicative verbs: further soundings in the Greek of the New Testament, New York, Peter Lang, 2008.

Caragounis, C. C., The Development of Greek and the New Testament: Morphology, Syntax, Phonology, and Textual Transmission, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.

Carson, D. A., Greek Accents – A Student's Manual, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1985.

Danker, Frederick W., ed., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian Literature, 3rd ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

McKay, K. L., A New Syntax of the Verb in New Testament Greek. Studies in Biblical Greek, Vol 5; New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.

Moule, C.F.D., An idiom Book of New Testament Greek, 2nd ed., Cambridge: The University Press, 1982.

Porter, Stanley E., Verbal aspect in the Greek of the New Testament: with Reference to Tense and Mood, N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing, 1993.

Porter, Stanley E. Idioms of the Greek New Testament, 2nd ed., Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

Runge, Steven E., Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis, Peabody: Hendrickson, 2010.

 

Textual Criticism

Aland, K. and B. Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, Leiden: Brill, 1987.

Black, David Alan. New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1994.

Black, David Alan. Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2002.

Comfort, Philip W. Encountering the manuscripts: an introduction to New Testament paleography and textual criticism, Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005.

Ehrman, B. D. and M. W. Holmes, eds. The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Questions. 2nd ed. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Greenlee, J. Harold. Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism. Rev. ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995.

Hammond, C.E., Outlines of textual criticism applied to the New Testament.  5th rev. ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Metzger, B.M. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2nd ed.  London/New York: United Bible Societies, 1994.

Metzger, B.M., and B.D. Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration. 4th ed. Oxford: OUP, 2005.

Parker, D. C. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts Cambridge: CUP, 2008.

Porter, S. E. How we got the New Testament: text, transmission, translation. Acadia studies in Bible and theology.  Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013.

 

Gospel of John

Commentaries:

C. K. Barrett, The Gospel According to St John (SPCK, 1978)

G. Beasley-Murray, John (Word, 1987)

R. E. Brown, The Gospel according to John ( 2 vols; Doubleday, 1966, 1974)

D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John (IVP, 1991)

C.S. Keener, The Gospel of John: A Commentary, 2 Vols (Hendrickson, 2003)

A.J. Köstenberger, John BECNT (Baker, 2004)

R. Michaels, The Gospel of John, NICNT (Eerdmans, 2010)

L. L. Morris, The Gospel According to John (Eerdmans, 1991)

H. Ridderbos, The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary (Eerdmans, 1997)

B. Witherington III, John’s Wisdom: A Commentary on the Fourth Gospel (John Knox, 1995).

 

Specialist Studies:

P.N. Anderson, F. Just and T. Thatcher, (eds.) John, Jesus, and History, Volume 1: Critical Appraisals of Critical Views (SBL, 2007)

P.N. Anderson, F. Just and T. Thatcher, (eds.) John, Jesus, and History, Volume 2: Aspects of Historicity in the Fourth Gospel (SBL, 2009)

C. K. Barrett, Essays on John (SPCK, 1986)

R. Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans, 2006)

R. Bauckham (ed.) The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History and Theology in the Gospel of John. (Baker, 2007)

R. Bauckham and C. Mosser, (eds). The Gospel of John and Christian Theology (Eerdmans, 2008)

G. Beasley-Murray, Gospel of Life:  Theology in the Fourth Gospel (Hendrickson, 1991)

C. Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of John's Gospel: Issues and Commentary. Leicester: IVP, 2001.

R. E. Brown, The Gospel according to John ( 2 vols; Doubleday, 1966, 1974)

R. E. Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple (Geoffrey Chapman, 1979)

R.E. Brown, Introduction to the Gospel of John. (Doubleday, 2003)

G. Burge, The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition (Eerdmans, 1987)

G.M. Burge Interpreting the Gospel of John (Baker, 1992)

R. A. Culpepper, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel (Fortress, 1983)

C. H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel (CUP, 1953)

M. Hengel, The Johannine Question (SCM, 1989)

C. R. Koester, Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community (Fortress, 1995)

A.J. Köstenberger and S.R. Swain. Father, Son, and Spirit: The Trinity and John's Gospel, NSBT (IVP, 2008)

A.J. Köstenberger, A Theology of John's Gospel and Letters, BTNT (Zondervan, 2009).

J.L. Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel. 3rd ed., NTL (Westminster John Knox Press, 2003)

L.L. Morris, Studies in the Fourth Gospel (Eerdmans, 1969)

C. M. Pate, The Writings of John: A Survey of the Gospel, Epistles, and Apocalypse (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011).

S. E. Porter & C. E. Evans (eds), The Johannine Writings: A Sheffield Reader (Sheffield Academic, 1995)

J. W. Pryor, John - Evangelist of the Covenant People (DLT, 1992)

J. A. T. Robinson, The Priority of John (SCM, 1985)

M. M. Thompson, The God of the Gospel of John (Eerdmans, 2001)

M.M. Thompson, "The Gospel According to John" in C. Stephen Barton, The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 182-200.

 

Classics:

Blass, F., A. Debrunner and Robert W. Funk, A Greek grammar of the New Testament and other early Christian literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961.!

Calvin, J., Commentary on the Gospel according to John, trans. W. Pringle (1847)

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