Catalogue 2008 Book - Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Bi.120 ELEMENTARY NEW TESTAMENT GREEK
This intensive course is designed to equip a student with basic reading skills in New Testament
Greek, making extensive use of audio and visual instructional materials and concentrating
on the fundamentals of grammar and the vocabulary occurring most frequently in the New
Testament. Eight credits. Mr. Alsup or Mr. Donelson; Summer
Bi.122 INTERMEDIATE READING IN NEW TESTAMENT GREEK
This course is designed for students who have previously studied Greek and need to review
basic Greek reading and grammar skills requisite to doing Greek exegesis. Two credits.
Mr. Alsup or Mr. Donelson; Summer
Bi.123 GREEK READING
This course is designed for students who have previously studied Greek and need to review
basic Greek reading and grammar skills requisite to doing Greek exegesis. Three credits.
Houston Extension
Bi.171 HEBREW READING
This course is designed to increase a student’s ability to read and translate the Hebrew Bible.
Prerequisite: Bi.118. Three credits. Mr. Ahn or Mr. Dearman
Bi.221 SELECTED READINGS IN HELLENISTIC GREEK
Passages from the Septuagint, Old and New Testament apocrypha and pseudepigrapha,
from the writings of Hellenistic Judaism, and from Christian and non-Christian writers
of the second century AD are selected in light of the students’ interests. Attention is paid
to peculiarities of Septuagint grammar and syntax as well as to features of koiné Greek.
Prerequisite: Bi.120. Three credits. Mr. Alsup or Mr. Donelson
II. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
To take seriously the fact of God’s revelation in history means to see the biblical
witness in its proper context. Old and New Testament studies involve responsible
historical and literary methods and approaches.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Bi.102 INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
This course is a study of the Old Testament as shaped by the varied circumstances in which
the faith and life of the believing communities found expression. Six credits.
Mr. Ahn or Mr. Dearman; Fall
Bi.116 INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
This course is a study of the New Testament as shaped by the varied circumstances in which
the faith and life of the early Christian community found expression. Six credits.
Mr. Donelson or Ms. Stubbs; Spring
Bi.119 THE BIBLE AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
A seminar on the discovery, archaeological recovery, and use of the Dead Sea scrolls. Areas
of concentration include the transmission and interpretation of Old Testament books, the
understandings of Jewish intertestamental history, and relationships of the scrolls to the origin
of Christianity. Six credits. Mr. Dearman
Bi./TH.225 THE EARLY CHURCH AND ROMAN SOCIETY
This course examines the social and theological interaction between the Christian church
of the fi rst three centuries and the Roman world. The church’s struggle to succeed in and
yet to be distinct from the Roman world shaped its organizational structure, its liturgy, its
ethics, and its theology. In light of these issues, this course explores the questions of how a
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