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Handouts

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  • Vocabulary

    About 300 Greek words are used 50 times or more in the New Testament. When you can remember the meanings of most of these common words, the Greek New Testament begins to feel like a neighborhood you are familiar with, rather than a strange and/or scary place to visit.
    Common Greek Vocabulary
    Croy refers to N. Clayton Croy, A Primer of Biblical Greek (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999).
    Required
    GreekVocabRev.pdf
    Excel Spreadsheet of Common Greek Words
    The same words as those on the .pdf, just in Excel format.
    Required
    GreekWords.xls
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  • Grammar, Monday

    General Review Sheet
    Reviews case functions and how verbs are formed.
    Required
    ReviewSheet01.pdf
    Greek Verb Mind Map
    Required
    GreekVerb.pdf
    Greek Noun Mind Map
    Required
    GreekNoun.pdf
    Introduction to Phrasing Greek Sentences
    Required
    Phrasing HowTo.pdf
    Phrasing Sample (Phil. 4:4-7)
    Required
    Phil 4_4-7.pdf
    Phrasing Homework
    This is in the form of a .doc in case you want to move the text and take notes with a computer. The Greek font is unicode and should be viewable by all.
    Required
    Gal_5_1_13-25.doc
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  • Grammar, Tuesday

    Translating Participles
    A mind map/decision tree for translating.
    Required
    translating participles.pdf
    Participle Mind Map
    Mind map showing the options for different elements of a participle.
    Required
    PtcMindMap.pdf
    Adjective Review Sheet
    Very good preparation for remembering how to recognize attributive and predicate position (which matters a lot when translating participles).
    Required
    AdjectivesReviewRev.pdf
    Infinitive Uses
    Required
    InfinitiveUses.pdf
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  • Grammar, Wednesday

    Principal Parts
    Mary's "top 20" list of verbs whose principal parts you will see a lot in the New Testament.
    Required
    PrincipalPartsAlpha.pdf
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  • Grammar, Thursday

    Prepositions
    Two pages summarizing features and common meanings of various Greek prepositions.
    Required
    Prepositions.pdf
    Pronouns Mind Map
    All the different kinds of pronouns on one page.
    Required
    pronouns-mindmap.pdf
    Pronouns Handout
    Additional explanation to accompany the mind map.
    Required
    PronounsHandout.pdf
    Preposition House
    Greek prepositions explained with a graphic of various people in relationship to a house. I do not know the source of this handout. I got it from another teacher.
    Required
    prepositionHouse.pdf
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  • Grammar, misc.

    Professor Jim Boyce's Grammar Notes for NT Greek
    A very short grammar summary with lots of NT examples. 
    Required
    BoyceNotes2.pdf
    Case Endings
    Five pages showing all three declensions' endings and common uses of each case.
    Required
    CaseEndings.pdf
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  • Exegesis Handouts

    Handouts related to your work to
    1. See the Text.
    2. Orient to Time, Place, and Person.
    3. Follow Up on Grammar & Syntax Questions.
    4. Study Words.
    5. Put the Text in Context
    Seeing the Text Sample
    Here John 3:1-8 is phrased with questions and comments about structure. Also includes "Rules of the Game" handout on analyzing structure.
    Required
    SeeTextSample.pdf
    Exegesis for Textual Preaching
    Written by Mary, published in Word & World 19 (1999) : 58-64. This and other essays available in the Word & World archives.
    Required
    19-1_Hinkle.pdf
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  • Helps for Working with Computer Programs

    Bwgrkl Greek Keyboard Layout for BibleWorks
    This is the layout of the BibleWorks font, bwgrkl, so you can figure out how to type Greek if you need to do so.
    Required
    BwgrklKeyboardLayout.pdf
    Helena Font Keyboard Layout for Accordance
    This is the layout for the default Greek font in Accordance. It is an excerpt of a longer document. If you are an Accordance user, you can find the 26-page pdf in your library folder > Application Support > Accordance folder > Manuals and Documents > Accordance fonts.pdf
    Required
    Helena_Keyboard_Layout.pdf
    BibleWorks Workshop Handout
    Required
    BW08Workshop01.pdf
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Web Links

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  • Accordance

    Accordance Bible Software
    Made for the Mac. PC users can run Accordance with a PC Emulator, discussed here.
    Required
    accordancebible.com
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  • BibleWorks

    BibleWorks Fonts
    If you have BibleWorks installed, you already have these fonts. If you do not, you can download fonts here to read and write the BibleWorks Greek and Hebrew fonts. Mac users: if you have a relatively new Mac, you can just download the Windows fonts. Your machine will recognize them.
    Required
    www.bibleworks
    BibleWorks Wiki from Luther Seminary
    Find tutorials here. If you have a luthersem.edu email, you can log in and write to the Wiki too.
    Required
    wiki.luthersem.edu
    BibleWorks Software
    Required
    www.bibleworks.com
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  • Web Sites and Blogs

    Bible Software Review
    What it sounds like: reviews of Bible software, regularly updated and helpful.
    Required
    www.bsreview.org
    Greek Lectionary Blog
    From Pastor Rob Myallis, updated regularly.
    Required
    www.lectionarygreek.blogspot.com
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  • Free Bible Study Software

    These may be web-based or downloads.
    e-Sword Web-Based Bible Study Tool
    Required
    www.e-sword.net
    The Word
    Free Bible study software for Windows users.
    Required
    www.theword.gr
    Bible Gateway
    Lots of texts, including a few Greek options in the public domain. The site offers very little in terms of search capability beyond searching for a word or phrase. Greek font is unaccented.
    Required
    www.biblegateway.com
    Teknia -- Bill Mounce's site for learning Greek
    This site includes a flash card program for vocabulary.
    Required
    www.learnbiblicalgreek.com
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