Available Dates and Times (All Eastern Time, USA)
Updated 8.22.2021
- Biblical Hebrew 1 (in progress)
This is a beginning Biblical Hebrew course. We use Page Kelley’s Biblical Hebrew, an Introductory Grammar (2nd Edition) for this course, and this course will cover the alphabet through almost all qal verbs. Currently meeting at 11am EDT on Tuesdays. In chapter 9. This course will continue as a B course midway through the book.
- Biblical Hebrew 2
- In progress now. We are in chapter 19 of Kelley’s grammar now (imperatives).
This is an intermediate Biblical Hebrew course. We use Page Kelley’s Biblical Hebrew, an Introductory Grammar (2nd Edition) for this course, and this course will cover all verbs beyond Qal verbs in all conjugations. It then proceeds to weak verbs.
- Hebrew Text Reading (ongoing)
This class is ongoing and can be joined at any time with a semester or two of requisite Hebrew grammar. Text and Vocabulary are supplied, and we read and discuss all aspects of the text, including grammar, syntax, literary structure and related theology.
If you would like to sit in on a class to get a feel for it, please let me know. Recordings are also available.
- Greek Text Reading (ongoing)
This class is ongoing and can be joined at any time with a semester or two of requisite Greek grammar. Text and Vocabulary are supplied, and we read and discuss all aspects of the text, including grammar, syntax, literary structure and related theology.
If you would like to sit in on a class to get a feel for it, please let me know. Recordings are also available.
- Biblical Theology – Extended and ongoing. Hebrew skills are NOT required.
This course explores the message of the Hebrew Bible and ends with a discussion of Mark’s – and the NT authors’ in general – understanding of how Jesus fulfilled the Scriptures. I seek to build a case that the Pentateuch establishes the foundational eschatology that culminates with the fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant through the coming of a Kingly figure, leading to the renewal of all creation. This is accomplished through its literary composition and content which directs readers to what will take place “in the last days”.
We will discuss complex motifs that the author (s) seeks to develop as he takes us from creation to exile. We will seek to understand creation, Adam, fall, etc. from a compositional, literary perspective.
This course should fundamentally transform the way you view the OT by helping you to understand their controlling narratives. These narratives, furthermore, help us to understand the NT writers (both Gospels and Paul) and help us to better articulate how God has been faithful to the covenant and to all creation.
This course is free of charge. Contact me to sit in.
- Koine (NT) Greek (beginning mid-September 2021)
New Testament (Koine) Greek. This class uses David Alan Black’s Learn to Read New Testament Greek.
You need to know Greek to not only read the New Testament but also to read the first Jewish Translation of the Scriptures, the Septuagint.
Please Contact Me to arrange to take one of these classes.