PTS Catalogue - Princeton Theological Seminary

As a means of evaluating the student’s ability to carry on exegetical work in New
Testament, the Greek placement examination will seek to test a student’s ability to:
1) analyze Greek forms; 2) understand fundamental syntactical construction; and
3) translate from the Greek New Testament. Students should be familiar with an
introductory grammar such as N.C. Croy’s A Primer of Biblical Greek or D.A. Black’s
Learn to Read New Testament Greek.
As a means of evaluating the student’s ability to carry on exegetical work in Old
Testament, the Hebrew placement examination will seek to determine the candidate’s
ability to:
1. Analyze Hebrew forms
2. Understand the fundamental syntactical construction
3. Translate prose passages from the Hebrew Bible
Students who have studied modern Hebrew should become familiar with an
introductory grammar such as T.O. Lambdin’s Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
(Scribner’s) or C.L. Seow’s Grammar for Biblical Hebrew (Abingdon). An unmarked
copy of the BDB lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the
Old Testament) may be used as a resource while taking this examination.
History
The student is required to take twelve credits, distributing the work as follows:
1. Three credits in the area of Early and Medieval History
2. Three credits in the area of Reformation History
3. Three credits in the area of Modern European or American History
4. Three credits in the area of Mission, Ecumenics, History of Religions,
or Sociology of Religion
Theology
The student is required to take twelve credits, distributing the courses as follows:
1. TH2100 Systematic Theology, (three credits), to be taken in either the first
or second semester of the junior year
2. Two courses, six credits, in TH3000- or TH5000-level courses
3. A course, minimum of three credits, in philosophy or Christian ethics
One course, three credits, in one of the above areas must focus on a major
theologian or church doctrine.
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