New Testament and the Greek Novel
Greek 201: Intermediate Greek
Greek 309: Koine Prose
Fall 2009 Prof. Amy R. Cohen
Office Hours: M 1 – 3, and by appointment
Office: Psychology 210, x8306 Email: acohen@randolphcollege.edu
Texts:
Required:
Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, edited with notes by Shannon N. Byrne and Edmund P. Cueva.
The Gospel According to St. Luke, with introduction and notes by J. M. Creed. (1960 ed. or later)
Recommended:
A Lexicon : Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon by H. G. Liddell and R. Scott.
Goals 201:
Our objective in this course is to solidify students’
understanding of Greek morphology and syntax by
reading large selections of Koine Greek prose. We will
also begin stylistic analysis and practice our sight-reading
skills.
Goals 309:
Our objective in this course is to become familiar
with Koine Greek prose writers and to gain an
understanding of their style. Students will also improve
their academic writing and research skills, as well as
practice Greek prose composition and sight-reading.
Class Requirements and Grading:
Greek preparation and participation for class. The
goal of your daily assignment is to produce a fluent
translation in class. Preparing this is Job One. Keep a
written, running translation for reference, review and
correction purposes, but do not be dependent on it in
class. You should practice your translation enough times
before class that you can read from the Greek in class.
Grading will be on the following basis:
Class Requirements and Grading:
Class will consist of close reading of Koine Greek
narrative prose and scripture. Participation and
homework preparation are crucial: students must be
prepared to translate the homework assignments fluently,
and to assist intermediate students when they need help.
Students will also compose passages of Greek in the style
of the writers and write a paper on some aspect of the
genre. Grading will be on the following basis:
Participation/Preparation
Graded homework
Tests
Final Exam (the last test)
30%
20%
30%
10%
100%
Attendance is mandatory for both Greek 201 and Greek
309. For every unexcused absence after three I will deduct
2 points from your final grade. Being conspicuously late is
rude and will also affect your participation grade.
To save as much class time as possible for translation and
questions, most Tests will be outside of class. On their
own, and pledged to the Honor Code, students will pick
up the test from my office, allow themselves an hour to
complete the test, and bring it to turn in to me at my
office. Tests are available Friday afternoon, and they will
cover the text and concepts through the Wednesday class
of that week. Tests are due at the beginning of the next
class meeting.
Participation/Preparation
Composition
Tests
Paper
Final Exam (the last test)
20%
20%
30%
20%
10%
100%
Classics Department Policy on Translations
You have probably figured out that someone else has already
translated what you are translating for class. There are two
useful and honorable ways to use someone else’s translation:
1) Read the entire work in English, including the parts we don’t cover in
class, to have a fuller understanding of the context for your passages.
2) After working on a translation on your own, with all the help that
dictionaries, commentaries, grammars, and your own good sense can provide,
if you get stuck on a sentence, you may refer to a translation to get a sense of
what the sentence says and to get unstuck. Then you must put away the
translation and translate the sentence yourself to guarantee that you
understand the grammar and syntax, especially since most translations are
not written to help you get through the assignment.
Ideally, you will not use someone else’s translation at all. But
we would much rather you do so very occasionally than have
you get frustrated or spend a whole evening on one sentence.
Semester Schedule (as ever, subject to change)
Week One
M 31 Aug
W 2 Sept
F 5 Sept
Week Two
M 7 Sept
W 9 Sept
F 11 Sept
Introductions; Longus & the Novel
Daphnis and Chloe Prologue.1
Prologue.2
1.1
Week Nine
M 26 Oct
W 28 Oct
F 30 Oct
Intro: Luke & the New Testament
The Gospel According to St. Luke 1:1-14
1:15-33
1:34-56
1.2-3; HW—synopsis
1.4-5
1.6-7
Week Ten
M 2 Nov
W 4 Nov
F 6 Nov
1.8-10
1.13-15
1.16-18
Week Eleven
M 9 Nov 6:12-26; Composition outline due
W 11 Nov 6:27-45; 7:36-42
F 13 Nov 7:43-50; 8:1-18
Week Four
M 21 Sept
W 23 Sept
F 25 Sept
1.24-29; HW—sentence parse
1.30-32:1-4 and 14-22
2.3:1-7 and 2.4-6
Week Twelve
M 16 Nov 9:1-27; HW—paragraph analysis
W 18 Nov 9:28-36; 10:25-37
F 20 Nov 11:1-13; 12:22-34
Week Five
M 28 Sept
W 30 Sept
F 2 Oct
No class: Yom Kippur
2.7-10 (except 8:7-20) ; Test 1 due
2.11; 3.15-16
Week Six
M 5 Oct
W 7 Oct
F 9 Oct
3.17-20:12; HW—sentence parse
4.11-12, 15
4.16, 17, 19:9-23, 21
Week Fourteen
M 30 Nov 15; Composition due
W 2 Dec 16:19-31; 18:18-34
F 4 Dec 20
Week Seven
M 12 Oct
W 14 Oct
F 16 Oct
4.22-24, 30
4.31-35
4.36, 37, 39, 40
Week Fifteen
M 7 Dec 22:1-37; 22:47-71
W 9 Dec 23
F 11 Dec 24
Week Eight
M 19 Oct
W 21 Oct
F 23 Oct
No class: Fall Break
Catch-up (309s help 201s)
Test 2 (in class)
Week Three
M 14 Sept
W 16 Sept
F 18 Sept
1:57-2:7; HW—paragraph analysis
2:8-38
2:39-52; 4:1-13
Week Thirteen
M 23 Nov 13:10-20; Test 3 due
Thanksgiving Break
309 Paper: due by December 15, 3pm
Exam (Test 4): by December 19
A Note on Sight Passages: Tests will have sight passages. For Longus, I will gloss words unless: 1) they are in Hansen
& Quinn, 2) they are in the “Select Vocabulary” in Byrne & Cueva, 3) they have appeared five times in our assignments.
For Luke, words that do not appear on the 80% list will be glossed. Students in 201 will not be graded as stringently on
sight passages as students in 309.
309 Paper Topic: A seven-page comparison of the styles of Longus and Luke.
309 Composition Assignment: An account (at least 1/2-page, double-spaced) of an episode of a television drama,
once in the style of Longus, and then the same story in the style of Luke.