Introduction%20to%20Biblical%20Greek

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Introduction to Biblical Greek
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• Home Phone [phone]

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Purpose for Studying Greek

• It helps us to see the local color

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Purpose for Studying Greek

• It helps us to see the local color
• It helps us to catch hidden meanings

"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven and whatever you shall bind on earth
shall be bound (estai dedemenon) in heaven, and
whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed
(estai lelumenon) in heaven." (Matthew 1619).
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Purpose for Studying Greek

• It helps us to see the local color
• It helps us to catch hidden meanings

• It helps us to refute false teachings that try to
  misuse the Greek

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Three Major Language Families
Indo-European
Semitic
Hamitic
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History of the Greek Language

• Proto-Greek Linear B (prior to 1200 B.C.)
• Classical Greek 1200 333 B.C.
• Koine Greek 333 330 A.D.

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History of the Greek Language

• Proto-Greek Linear B (prior to 1200 B.C.)
• Classical Greek 1200 333 B.C.
• Koine Greek 333 330 A.D.

• Byzantine Period 330 1453.
• Modern Period 1453 to present

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Other Influences in New Testament Greek

• Hebraisms

And Mary said to the angel, "How can this be,
since I am a virgin? (Luke 134).
since I do not know a man
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Other Influences in New Testament Greek

• Hebraisms

• Latinisms
• Names of persons
• Official titles

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