BLA 716 Greek Exegesis - Galatians

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BLA 617 Greek Exegesis: GalatiansCincinnati Bible Seminary

Spring, 2011Dr. William R. Baker

Monday: 3:20-6:00 PM

COURSE DESCRIPTION

A careful study of the Greek text of the Epistle of Galatians, emphasizing the contribution of the language tothe message of the letter. 3 hours.

RATIONALE

As the final level of the Greek language program, this course assumes students have a firm grasp ofgrammar and translation of the Greek text and have been exposed to syntax issues, textual criticism, andword study processes but recognizes the need for students to gain greater facility with these crucial aspectsof Greek New Testament studies as well as the need to learn how to employ their Greek in exegesis andexposition. After working so hard to learn Greek, students will receive help to transition this knowledge intopreaching and teaching.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course students will:

1) demonstrate proficiency in translating the Greek text of Galatians.

2) demonstrate expertise in interpretive syntax, textual criticism, and word studies.

3) demonstrate thorough interactive reading of Greek exegetical commentaries.

4) complete a full exegesis of one significant passage in Galatians.

REQUIRED TEXTS

Baker, William.Exegesis Project Handbook. (Moodle)

The Greek New Testament. Edited by Barbara Aland et al. New York: American Bible Society.Latest Edition.

Greenlee, Harold. Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism. Peabody, MA:Hendrickson, 1995.

Kubo, Sakae.A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975.

Metzger, Bruce. A Textual Commentary of the Greek New Testament. New York: American BibleSociety, Latest Edition. (optional)

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Schreiner, Thomas. Galatians. Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan,2009

Wallace, Daniel. The Basics of New Testament Syntax. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS

Galatians: Greek Exegetical Commentaries

Betz, Ernst. Galatians. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979.

Bruce, F. F. Commentary on Galatians. New international Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids:Eerdmans, 1982.

Burton, Ernest DeWitt Burton. The Epistle of Galatians. International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark, 1921.

Longenecker, Richard. Galatians. Word Biblical Commentary. Waco, TX: Word, 1990.

Matera, Frank. Galatians. Sacra Pagina. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1992.

Martyn, J. Louis. Galatians. Anchor Bible. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Galatians: English-Based Commentaries

Cole, R. A. The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. Rev. ed. GrandRapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

Cousar, Charles. Galatians. Interpetation. Atlanta: John Knox, 1982.

Fung, Ronald. The Epistle to the Galatians. New International Critical New Testament Commentary).Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.

Guthrie, Donald. Galatians. New Century. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 1973.

Hanson, G. W. Galatians. IVP New Testament Commentary. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1994.

Stott, John R. W. The Message of Galatians. Bible Speaks Today. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1968.

MAJOR LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND COURSE REQUIREMENTS

A. Due the first day of class!!!!!!!!!

1) Read the Epistle of Galatians through in English in one sitting. Write a paragraph on elements ofthe book which spark your interest.

2) Read Schreiners Introduction plus the introduction to one of the other Greek exegeticalcommentaries in the bibliography, the section on Galatians in Donald Guthrie,New Testament Introduction(Downers Grove, InterVarsity, 1965), Werner George Kummel,Introduction to the New Testament, trans.

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Howard Clark Kee (Nashville: Abingdon, 1987), or Carson, Moo, Morris,An Introduction to the NewTestament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992). Write one-paragraph summaries of the key issues involvingauthorship, dating, recipients, and occasion.

3) Wallace, pp. 25-64.

B. Due each week as we go along for the appropriate sections.

1) Prepare to translate the Greek and discuss syntax and commentary issues. The optimum intranslation is to be able to do so without notes, reading from the Greek text with a clear knowledge ofdifficult grammatical parsings as well as syntax issues. A prepared note sheet should be ready forconsultation as needs demand and will be turned in each week for evaluation. You should have a written-outtranslation in your notes, but you SHOULD NOT READ FROM IT when you are reciting. If you dont doso already, prepare each verse by writing down each word you dont know or cant parse in your head on theleft column of your paper. Write out the lectionary form of each word, its meaning, and parsing to the right.At the end write out your translation. Be sure to utilize Kubo to speed up the translation process.

2) Also, be sure to PRACTISE READING EACH VERSE OUT LOUD, since you will be evaluatedon your ability to do this. First, be sure you can read all consonant and vowel sounds correctly. Second, beable to emphasize the accented syllable(s) of each word. Third, work on natural phrasing of prepositionalphrases, subject/verb, noun and modifiers. Be sure to utilize Kubo to speed up the translation process.

3) Add to your analysis for each verse, your understanding of the syntax for key words, butespecially all genitives, imperfects, and participles, using Wallace. A syntax guide of terminology fromDaniel Wallace,Basics of New Testament Greek Syntax is provided with this syllabus, but other syntaxorientations are acceptable.

4) Exegetical preparation should include reading the relevant portion of Schreiner, and one otherGreek exegetical commentary of your choice, taking written notes on key interpretive issues. There shouldbe some for EVERY verse. Awareness of the occasional textual issue of consequence should be consideredas well.

5) Corrections and additions (perhaps in a different color pen or something) to this work should be

done as we go through the passages in class.

C. Exegesis Project

By the second week of the semester, each student will choose a portion of Galatians as the base for theirexegetical project. This should consist of a brief paragraph, or portion of a paragraph, covering between 8-12 lines in the Greek New Testament. Orientation of sequential tasks in the exegetical process will occur inclass and be coordinated with reading from Fee. Due dates spread through the semester will move eachstudent through the semester to a completed exegetical paper and oral presentation

GRADING

In-Class Translation/Syntax/Commentary Preparation, 30%

Exegesis Project 10%

Final Exam 20%

Vocab Quizzes 10%

Reading Wallace 10%

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ODDS AND ENDS

Attendance Policy: No absences are allowed without valid reasons which are communicated to me before orimmediately after the absence. Absences do not change due dates for required work. Extensive absences

will result in grade loss or lack of credit for the course. Check handbook.

Late Work Policy: No late work is acceptable. Appropriate grade reductions will be assessed, usually oneletter grade per week. This includes work due the first day of class.

Extensions: See the seminary office for official extension for course work beyond the final due date.

Cell Phones: TURN THEM OFF. DO NOT ACCEPT OR MAKE CALLS DURING CLASS

Social Activity: Night out after class on April 29th.

Contact: On Mondays and Tuesdays, sometimes Wednesday I am available in my office (lower level of thegrad building). Home phone: 513-683-6058; e-mail: [email protected]

COURSE SCHEDULE

Jan 24 Syllabus/ Introduction to Galatians/ DUE: Intro paper, Wallace, 25-64

Jan 31 Gal 1:1-10 DUE: TASK 1 AND EXEGESIS CHOICE, W65-93

Feb 7 Galatians 1:11-24 DUE: TASK 2; W256-285

Feb 14 Galatians 2:1-10 DUE: TASKS 3, 4, 5; W129-173

Feb 21 Galatians 2:11-21 DUE: TASK 6,;W, W213-253

Feb 28 Galatians 3:1-14 DUE: TASK 7; Greenlee (select chapters)

Mar 7 SPRING BREAK

Mar 14 Galatians 3:15-25 DUE: TASKS 8, 9; W93-128

Mar 21 Galatians 3:26-4:7 DUE: TASKS 10a, 10b; 173-212 Mar 25-26EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (HERE!)

Mar 28 Galatians 4:8-20 DUE: TASK 10c; W286-321

Apr 4 Galatians 4:21-5:1 DUE: TASK 11, 12

Apr 8-9 SCJ CONFERENCE (HERE!)

Apr 11 Galatians 5:2-14 DUE: TASK 13

Apr 18 Galatians 5:16-26 DUE; TASK 14

Apr 25 Galatians 6:1-16

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May 2 Exegesis Oral Presentations DUE: EXEGESIS PAPER AND ALL TASKS(Eat out after class)

May 9 Final Exam

SYNTAX (Daniel Wallace,Basics of New Testament Syntax, Zondervan, 2000)

NOMINATIVEPrimary

SubjectPredicate NominativeNominative in Simple Apposition

Grammatically Independent UsesNominative AbsoluteNominative PendentParenthetic NominativeNominative for Vocative

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Nominative of Exclamation

VOCATIVEDirect Address

SimpleEmphatic

Exceptional Usage in ActsApposition

GENITIVEAdjectival

DescriptivePossessiveRelationshipPartitiveAttributiveAttributedMaterialContentSimple AppositionPredicativeSubordination

AblativeSeparationSourceComparison

Verbal (Related to a Verbal Noun)SubjectiveObjective

Plenary

AdverbialTimeMeansAgencyAbsoluteReferenceAssociation

After Certain WordsAfter Certain Verbs ( as Direct Object)After Certain Adjectives (and Adverbs)After Certain Prepositions

DATIVEPure Dative

Indirect ObjectInterest (including Advangtage and Disadvantage)ReferenceDestination

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PossessionsSimple Apposition

LocalSphereTime

Instrument

AssociationMannerMeans/InstrumentAgencyMeasureCauseCognate

After Certain WordsAfter Certain Verbs (Direct Object)After Certain NounsAfter Certain AdjectivesAfter Certain Prepositions

ACCUSATIVESubstantival

Direct ObjectDouble Accusative of Person-ThingDouble Accusative of Object-ComplementPredicateSubject of InfinitiveRetained ObjectSimple Apposition

AdverbialMannerMeasure (extant, space, time)

Respect (reference)Special Uses

After Certain Prepositions.

PARTICIPLESAdjectival

Adjectival Proper (Dependent)Substantival (Independent)

VerbalAdverbial

TemporalMannerMeansCauseConditionConcessionPurpose (Telic)Result

Attendant CircumstanceIndirect Discourse

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PeriphrasticRedundant (Pleonastic)

AbsoluteNominative AbsoluteGenitive Absolute

INFINITIVESAdverbial

PurposeResultTimeCauseComplementary (Supplementary)

SubstantivalSubjectDirect ObjectIndirect DiscourseAppositionalEpexegetical

Articular Infinitive

INDICATIVE VERBSPresent

Narrow-BandInstantaneous (Aoristic or Punctiliar)Progressive (Descriptive)

Broad-Band

Extending from Past PresentIterativeCustomaryGnomic

Special UsesHistoricalPerfectiveConative (Tendential, Voluntative)FuturisticPresent Retained in Indirect Discourse

ImperfectNarrow-Band

Progressive (Descriptive)Ingressive (Inceptive)

Broad-BandIterativeCustomary

Special UsesConativeImperfect Retained in Indirect Discourse

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AoristConstativeIngressiveConsummativeEpistolary

Proleptic (Futuristic)Immediate Past/Dramatic

FuturePredictiveImperativalDeliberative

PerfectIntensive (Resultive)Extensive (Consummative)Aoristic (Dramati or Historical)Perfect with Present Force

PluperfectIntensiveExtensiveSimple Past

GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPERS

Dr. William R. BakerCincinnati Bible Seminary

January 1, 2009

This is not intended to replace all the information graduate students receive in the Mini-Manualof Form and Style Rules at CBC&S. It is intended as a supplement to clarify particular concernsthat may puzzle students. It only applies to my courses as standards for grading.

The Best Guide for Term Papers in Biblical Studies

The Chicago Manual of Style, which is the official manual for most graduate schools, is

not itself readily available. Most schools depend on books that explain this standard, includingespecially theManuel of Form and Style by Kate Turabien, which has been edited and revisedmany times. In biblical studies, however, the most helpful adaptation ofChicago is theSBLHandbook of Style, edited by Patrick Alexander et al. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999). Thisprovides how tos for various footnote/bibliography issues but also supplies standardabbreviations for biblical and extra-biblical books commonly employed in the field. Not onlythat, but a student can look at copies of theJournal of Biblical Literature on any library shelf orgo to Stone-CampbellJournal.com for examples of how everything is done. This now can be

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consulted free on the Society of Biblical Literature website. If you plan to do an M.A. thesisin biblical studies and continue on in this field you absolutely mustpurchase a copy of theSBLHandbook of Style. It is worth your while to get used to doing things according to the stylebookas soon as possible. I will include their biblical book abbreviation guide with this document.

(C) Changes from CBC&S Guide

1) Please use Times New Roman font at either 11pt or 12pt size. Do not use CourierNew.

2) Please use Ibid when a footnote source is exactly the same as the source in the previousfootnote. You simply write Ibid. or Ibid, with the different page number if that is not thesame.

3) Put books, journals, etc in italics--not underlined.

4) Use short titles after the first reference to a source(Hays,First Corinthians, p. 23).

(F) Form Expectations

1) Include a title page plus one blank page (for my comments) at the beginning. The titlepage should include the students e-mail address and postal address. This includespapers turned in attached from e-mail.

2) Repeat the title of the paper on the first page.

3) Number each page, except the title page and blank page. It is very common for studentsto turn in unnumbered term papers since this must be inserted in documents and is not

done automatically.

4) Use a one-inch margin all around the paper. Word automatically does 1 on the leftand right, but this is not necessary unless you plan to have your paper bound (as youwould a thesis). The only exception is the first page, which should have a two-inch topmargin.

5) If a paper is more than 5 pages in length, it should have subdivisions: Introduction, Body,Bibliography, Conclusion. The introduction should orient readers to the subject pluscontain a thesis statement (what you think or what you will prove) plus a layout of howthis thesis will be proved or examined (subsection titles.). The Conclusion shouldsummarize what the paper has done, reaffirm or state a modified form of the thesis basedon the results in the paper, and then look to wider areas of application, theologically,biblically, in the church, personally, or for current culture.

6) Authors of articles in Bible and theological dictionaries should be part of footnotes andbibliography. Example: L. Morris, Faith, pp. 285-291, in Dictionary of Paul (ed:Gerald Hawthorne et al; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1993). This is the same for amultivolume commenatary, like Expositors. Murray J. Harris, 2 Corinthians, in

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Expositors Bible Commenatary, vol. 10 (Ed. Frank Gaebelein; Grand Rapids: Zondervan,1976), p. 323.

7) Authors of commentaries in a series should follow this form: John Smith, Commentary(Commentary Series Name; City, ST:Year), p. #.

8) Do not list lexical aids in bibliography, such as Bauer Arndt Gingrich nor Bible versionslike NIV.

(S) Style Expectations

1) Use SBL abbreviations for Bible books (listed below). Do not use a period after theabbreviation.

2) When referencing a single psalm do not use the plural: Psalm 140:1. When starting asentence with a biblical reference, write out the name of the book in full: First Timothy3:4 is a great verse. Otherwise, it may be abbreviated: I love 1 Tim 3:4. When

mentioning the chapter only, you must write out book name: I love 1 Timothy 3. Neveruse ff following biblical references or pages. Be exact. Rom 3:4-6 not Rom 3:4ff. pp. 3-5 not pp. 3ff.

3) Do not capitalize pronouns that refer to God.

4) Capitalize Bible and Scripture but not biblical and scriptural,

5) Do not punctuate a subordinate clause as if it is a complete sentence.

6) Do not begin sentences with but or and. Change but to However, Eliminate

And.

7) When using but in a complex sentence, do not precede it with a comma, unless thesubsequent clause is complete (has a subject and a verb): He went to the store but did notbuy bread. He went to the store, but he did not buy bread.

8) Make sure your verb and subject are in agreement (plural-plural, singular-singular)

9) Do not quote lengthy portions from your resources. Only quote when the author sayssomething particularly well, and even then, keep it to the best part, maybe a sentence, or aportion of a sentence you can include in your sentence. You can summarize in your ownwords what the author says as much as you want. If it is a primary, hard-to-access ancientresource, like from Qumran or Greek philosophers or something, lengthier quotations areacceptable but they usually should be done as a block quote.

10) Footnotes or in-text notes are acceptable, though footnotes provide you more latitude tocomment on or quote from the references.

(W) Writing Style Advice

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1) Avoid using very weak words like very, pretty, a lot, clearly.

2) Never begin sentences with I think, I feel, It seems, It is or There is/are.Make whatever you are talking about the subject. I think the sky is blue today>>> Thesky is blue today.

3) Use active rather than passive verbs.

4) Find something stronger than is/are as a verb. Use a thesaurus.

5) Avoid I as much as possible. Think in terms of a wider scope, like Many Christiansor Most People.

6) Write in gender inclusive language but do not use he/she. The best way to keep fromwriting yourself into a corner on this is too write in the plural. Rather than writing, AChristian should keep himself (herself?) pure, you can write, Christians should keepthemselves pure.

(R) Research Guidelines

1) Do not rely on internet resources. Even though they are convenient to access, these areusually inferior to published work.

2) Make time to go to the library or use Ohio Link.

3) Focus on the best and most recently published work. Give yourself a stop point at 10, 15,or 20 years back. Anything further back, if it is really important, will be referenced bycurrent work. Then, you might want to look at it.

4) UseNew Testament Abstracts (available in our library) to locate outstanding articles youcan get through interlibrary loan.

5) Follow up on footnotes, resources noted there. They might lead you to the gem of a bookor article that provides information to make your paper really successful.

6) Use sources recommended in the syllabus.

(B) Bible Abbreviations

GenExodLevNumDeutJoshJudgRuthSam

KgsChrExraNehEsthJobPs/PssProvEccl (or Qoh)

Song (or Cant)IsaJerLamEzekDanHosJoelAmos

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ObadJonahMicNahHabZephHagZechMattMarkLukeJohnActsRomCorGalEph

PhilColThessTimTitusPhilmHebJasPetJohnJude

Rev

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