Teaching Greek in a Christian College

Perry L. Stepp (plstepp@flash.net)
Tue, 19 May 1998 17:27:34 -0400

In light of the thread discussing different grammars, and especially in
light of Dr. Pendergraft's reports concerning the difficulties religion
students (who'd likely started studying Greek through standard seminary
grammars, such as Machen) had with Greek compared to students who began with
a classical orientation, let me pose the following:

I, like several others on the list, will likely someday be teaching Greek at
a church-affiliated school. The majority of students who will take Greek
from me will be what I was as an undergrad--someone looking to fulfill the
requirements for a ministry-oriented degree.

(As I've written before, I didn't learn Greek properly. Even as a Ph.D.
candidate in NT, I'm still struggling with the deficiencies in my
education.)

The question: how should teachers in Christian Colleges approach the
teaching of Greek? How many different alternative approaches are there, and
what are the benefits and problems of each?

PLStepp

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