Second Year Greek | Bill Mounce

In second-year Greek, you will build on the building blocks of first-year Greek. This is why you actually learned Greek, to read the Greek New Testament. You will read twenty different passages from the Greek Testament and a few from other sources.

In the link below, “Resources,” you will find listed everything you need to learn Greek, both books that Bill Mounce has written and other recommended texts.

We are leaving this class open to the public for now. If you use it, please purchase the textbook, A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek, upon which these talks are based. Or you could just make a donation to help cover our costs.

Lesson	Description	Completed
1. 1 John 1	1 John 1 description	No
Resources	These are Bill's recommended resources for second year Greek.	No
Orientation	In this lesson we will cover the basics of the class. Please listen to the video and read the following carefully.	No
1 John 1:1–2:6; 2:28–3:10	If you have not yet learned conditional sentences, be sure you do so before working through this passage. See BBG, p. 330, and Wallace, 679-701. These two passages are a powerful discussion of the place of sin in the believer’s life as well as the believer’s assurance. It is a helpful exercise to count all the ways in which John shows us our assurance. In these two passages, John holds in tension the fact of our assurance and our need for vigilance, lest we fall into complacency and allow sin to have an ongoing role in our lives.	No
John 15:1–27	In this passage you will see the value of carefully watching shifts in tenses. It also illustrates the importance of recognizing that even in the indicative, the primary significance of a tense is its aspect, not its time. You will need to understand the force of the subjunctive in conditional statements, especially when the subjunctive indicates a general (axiomatic) truth. Be careful that your translation does not make the truth of the statement conditional. What is conditional is whether or not you will do the action described in the “if” clause. Typically in John, the vocabulary is simple and repetitive. Theologically, note carefully the necessity of abiding and the implications if you do not, especially in terms of one’s fruit. What does this passage teach about “carnal Christians”? Much of this passage is enjoyable to phrase. You may want to look especially at 15:7-8 and 15:15-16.	No
Mark 1:1–28	Many of the exercises in The Basics of Biblical Greek were drawn from the initial chapters of Mark so much of this chapter may feel familiar. There are a large number of comments in the Exegetical Discussion section for this chapter, so please be sure to have your Cheat Sheet out and learn the categories in bold.	No
Colossians 1:1–23	Colossians 1 is a great passage for studying Paul’s writing style and the connection of his thoughts. Concentrate especially on the precise meanings of the prepositions and the participles. Do not be content merely using the generic meaning of the preposition or the “-ing” translation of the participle. Be sure to spend time working on your phrasing and you will see again why this discipline is vital for exegesis. We recommend that you phrase the entire passage. If you can only do a smaller amount of text, phrase either vv 3-8 or vv 9-12.	No