Religion for Breakfast presents:
Intro to Koine GreekÂ
with Chance E. Bonar, PhD
September 24 – November 12, 2024
Introduction to Koine Greek
New Testament Greek is a form of ancient Greek also known as Koine or “common” Greek, and it became popular across the ancient Mediterranean during and after Alexander the Great’s conquests.
Koine Greek was used to write the New Testament, the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible), many early Christian and Byzantine texts, and many Greek writings of the Roman Empire (e.g., Polybius’s Histories, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations).
In this course, students receive an introduction to the script, grammar, and syntax of Koine Greek equivalent to 60% of a semester-length graduate or seminary course on NT Greek.
By completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Pronounce Koine Greek words and read comfortably aloud from the New Testament in Greek.
2. Properly identify forms of some Greek verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
3. Translate short verses and passages from the New Testament.
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Meet Your Instructor
Chance E. Bonar, PhD
Chance Bonar is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, whose research and teaching primarily focus on ancient Mediterranean religions, slavery, antisemitism, gender-based violence, and theories of authorship. He has two forthcoming projects: God, Slavery, and Early Christianity: Divine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas (Cambridge University Press) and The Author in Early Christian Literature (Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press). Additionally, he has published articles in Ancient Jew Review, the Journal of Late Antiquity, the Journal of Biblical Literature, Early Christianity, and Le MusĂ©on.Â
Chance completed his PhD at Harvard University in the Committee on the Study of Religion, and also holds an MAR from Yale Divinity School and a BA from St. Olaf College. He has been a Lecturer of Advanced Greek at Harvard Divinity School, an Instructor of Theology at Boston College, and a William R. Tyler Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
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