The basic elements of Classical and Koine Greek and culture, emphasizing both Classical and New Testament authors.

Continuation of GRK 1301.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

Attic prose readings and selections from the New Testament, with review of inflection and syntax and discussion of the relationship between Classical and Christian texts.

Readings in Homer's Odyssey with continued emphasis on Greek inflection and syntax and on the interpretive relationship between Classical and Christian texts.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

The principles of Greek historiography emphasizing Herodotus, Thucydides, and other Greek historians.

Greek drama, emphasizing Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

Selections from Plato, Aristotle, Lysias, Demosthenes, and the Church Fathers which reflect the principles of classical rhetoric and its importance to the theology and preaching of the early church. Attention will also be given to modern homiletics.

Readings on the life and times of Alexander the Great.

Readings in ancient Greek associated with the island of Sicily. Readings will come from authors such as Homer, Euripides, or Thucydides.

Epigraphical documents generally comprise those texts incised in durable material-stone, bronze, lead, et cetera. This seminar examines both the contents of those epigraphical documents that survive from Antiquity and the contexts within which they were created. As such, it serves as a general introduction to epigraphical sources and methods, as well as to the ways in which epigraphical information can be used to study ancient society. By offering for study diverse epigraphical examples from various periods of Antiquity, the course will introduce basic bibliography, major collections of documents, research and field methodology (including the study of inscriptions in museums and archaeological sites in mainland Italy and Sicily), and the use of electronic resources available for epigraphical studies.

The letter-form, a genre common in Greek and Roman literature and the dominant structural form of the New Testament, as exemplified in the Pauline and General Epistles.

Literature of the Hellenistic period (323 - 31 BC) with additional attention on New Testament backgrounds, in particular Philo and Josephus.

Apocalyptic literature of the New Testament, including selections from the Gospels, Jude, the Epistles of Peter, the Shepherd of Hermas and the Revelation of John.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

Readings from Greek authors including either Classical authors or portions of the New Testament, and related background texts. With content changed, this course may be repeated up to a total of nine semester hours.

Readings may include selections from Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Anacreon, Simonides, and others.

Readings from the Iliad with emphasis on the characteristics of the archaic oral tradition, as the foundation of Greek literature.

Selected plays of Aristophanes and Menander, emphasizing the style and structure of Greek comedy, and its importance in Greek society for understanding of the comic tradition.

Selected readings in Greek from the writings of Plato. With content changed, this course may be repeated up to a total of six semester hours.

Selected readings in Greek from the writings of Aristotle. With content changed, this course may be repeated up to a total of six semester hours.

Selections from representative Greek orators, such as Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates and Isaeus.

Translation of English text into classical Greek.

Selected readings in Greek from writings (e.g., Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymns) dealing with the gods of the Greeks.

Selected readings in Greek dealing with the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers and their respective philosophical systems.

Readings in the Gospels emphasizing the history of New Testament criticism and interpretation. Attention will also be given to the writings of the Church Fathers, as well as to recent methodologies.

The Septuagint as an example of the interaction between the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman worlds.

Selected readings in Greek about the lives of the saints of the early church.

Greek authors selected to meet the needs of the student. With content changed, this course may be repeated up to a total of nine semester hours.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.