GREEK LANGUAGE OF BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC TEXTS

Course Information
TitleΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΤΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΩΝ / GREEK LANGUAGE OF BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC TEXTS
CodeΥ105
FacultyTheology
SchoolSocial Theology and Christian Culture
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorSymeon Paschalidis
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID60005045
Class Information
Academic Year2016 – 2017
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours2
Total Hours26
Class ID
600055335
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Background
Course Type 2011-2015
General Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
ANCIENT GREEK OF THE SECONDARY EDUCATION LEVEL
Learning Outcomes
The aim of the course is the familiarization with the Ancient Greek language of the Saint Scriptures and of the patristic and ecclesial texts. The course focuses on building a comprehensive vocabulary of Ancient Greek and on understanding of the major grammatical and syntactic cases of the Ancient Greek occurred in the ancient Greek texts of the Biblical and Christian literature.
By the successful completion of the course, the students should be able:
  • to understand the historical development of the Greek language and the reasons that shaped the language of the biblical and ecclesial texts
  • to discern the difference between the Greek language of the biblical texts and the Greek of the patristic and ecclesial texts
  • to recognize the grammatical and syntactic phenomenons of the ancient, biblical and patristic-ecclesial language
  • to work out an ancient Greek text, as well as a patristic and ecclesial one, so as to understand it and translate it.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Τhe history of the Greek language is presented briefly, focusing to the Koine Hellenistic and to the language of the Fathers and the of the ecclesial texts, and exposing the reasons that shaped their linguistic form. Anthologized texts of the periods under consideration are studied and the basic grammatical and syntactical features of the Ancient Greek language are illustrated, whereas the vocabulary of the texts is commented semantically. The differences of the language between the biblical and the ecclesial texts are highlighted and the proper linguistic approach is taught.
  1. a)A concise history of the Ancient Greek language. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  2. a)The Koine Hellenistic language of the Hellenistic and of the imperial ages. The phenomenon of the Atticism. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  3. a)Morphological and syntactical features of the Koine Hellenistic language. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  4. a)Examples of the Koine Hellenistic from anthologized texts of the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman age. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  5. a)Examples of the Atticizing language from anthologized texts of the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman age. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  6. a)The language of the Septuagint. Select examples. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  7. a)The language of the New Testament. Select examples. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  8. a)The Medieval Greek language: literary and demotic one. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  9. a)Examples of the Medieval Greek from anthologized literary texts of the Byzantine age. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  10. a)Examples of the Demotic Medieval Greek from anthologized demotic texts of the Byzantine age. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  11. a)The language of the Fathers and of the ecclesial writers of the Byzantine age. Select examples. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  12. a)The ecclesial language of the liturgical texts. Select examples. b)Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
  13. a)Collation of the language of the biblical texts and of the language of the ecclesial texts. b)Characteristic examples. Practice in the Grammar and Syntax of the Ancient Greek Language.
Keywords
History of the Greek language, Ancient Greek, Koine Hellenistic language, Medieval Greek, Ecclesial language, atticism, diglossia and bilingualism
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Electronic supplementary material and exercises provided at the Moodle e-Education platform.
Educational use of the e-mail.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures522.1✓✓
Tutorial261.0✓✓
Written assigments150.6✓✓
Exams150.6✓✓
Other / Others150.6
Total1234.9
Student Assessment
Description
A two-hour written examination in translation and commentary of a taught unit of text. The classroom participation (5%), the homework (15%) and the attendance of scientific conferences (10%) are assessed in addition.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Formative, Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Επιλογή Συγγραμμάτων
  • Βιβλίο [13107]: Ελληνικά. Η ιστορία της γλώσσας και των ομιλητών της, Geoffrey Horrocks
Additional bibliography for study
  1. Browning, Robert. 1983. Medieval and Modern Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Christidis, A.-F. ed., History of Ancient Greek: from the Beginnings to Late Antiquity, 2007.
  3. Horrocks, Geoffrey. 1997. Greek. A History of the Language and its Speakers. London/New York: Longman.
  4. Adrados, F. R. Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας (από τις απαρχές έως τις μέρες μας). 2003.
  5. Ανδριώτη, Ν. Π. Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας (τέσσερις μελέτες). [1995] 2003. ΙΛΝΕ.
  6. Hoffmann, O. Debrunner, A. & Scherer, A. Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας. 1983.
  7. Καψωμένου, Σ. Γ. Από την ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας (η ελληνική γλώσσα από τα ελληνιστικά ως τα νεότερα χρόνια. Η ελληνική γλώσσα στην Αίγυπτο). [1985] 2003.
  8. Κοπιδάκη, Μ., επιμ. Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας. 1999. ΕΛΙΑ.
  9. Μπαμπινιώτη, Γ. Συνοπτική ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας (με εισαγωγή στην ιστορικοσυγκριτική γλωσσολογία). [1980] 2002.
  10. Tonnet, H. Ιστορία της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας. 1996.
ΒΟΗΘΗΜΑΤΑ
  1. Liddell-Scott-Κωνσταντινίδου, Mέγα Λεξικόν τῆς ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης, τόμ. 1-4, Ἀθῆναι.
  2. Μιχ. Οικονόμου, Γραμματική της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής, ΙΝΣ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1971.
  3. Ἀχ. Τζαρτζάνου, Γραμματική Ἀρχαίας Ἑλληνικής Γλώσσης, ΟΕΔΒ, Ἀθῆναι.
  4. Ἀχ. Τζαρτζάνου, Συντακτικόν Ἀρχαίας Ἑλληνικής Γλώσσης, ΟΕΔΒ, Ἀθῆναι.
  5. Στ. Πατάκη-Ν. Τζιράκη, Λεξικό Ρημάτων Αρχαίας Ελληνικής, ομαλών και ανωμάλων, ΠΑΤΑΚΗΣ, Αθήνα 1973.
  6. A. Lesky, Ἱστορία τῆς Ἀρχαίας Ἑλληνικῆς Λογοτεχνίας (πρωτότ. Geschicthe der Griechischen Literatur, Bern-München 21963), μετφρ. Ἀγ. Τσοπανάκη, 4η ἔκδ., ΑΦΟΙ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΙΔΗ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1978.
Last Update
14-10-2016