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123 NEW TESTAMENT The New Testament department assists students in becoming at home in the New Testament in both English and Greek. Becoming familiar with the biblical content and with the techniques of interpreting the biblical record are emphasized. The approach is both synthetic and analytical. Two questions are preeminent—what does the Bible say and what does it mean? Students are encouraged to become independent as careful exegetes and interpreters of God's Word with the goal being the application in life and ministry of God's eternal truth. NT 501 New Testament Greek I Introduces the morphology and syntax of the Greek language of the New Testament. The first semester covers the essentials of grammar and the development of a basic working vocabulary. Three hours. NT 502 New Testament Greek II In the second semester the student is introduced to the fundamental tasks of exegesis and textual criticism, and students translate selected New Testament texts, practice exegetical methods, and do introductory grammatical layouts. Prerequisite: NT 501 New Testament Greek I. Three hours. NT 508 Survey and Interpretation of the New Testament This course surveys the contents of the New Testament, interpreting them in light of relevant historical, theological and literary contexts. Special attention is paid to texts and themes of particular relevance for leadership, spiritual formation and soul care, and justice and mission/cultural engagement. Satisfies the NT requirement for professional M.A. degrees only. Three hours. NT 509 New Testament Survey for Counseling This course provides an introduction to the New Testament and a survey of its contents. Special attention will be devoted to themes and passages with particular significance for counseling. Two hours. NT 511 Gospels and Acts This course provides an overview of the intertestamental period, including the religious and political backgrounds to the first century A.D. world. It studies issues of introduction for the four Gospels and Acts, and, using the English New Testament, provides a harmonistic study of the life of Christ with a focus on his essential teachings, the theology of evangelism, and the planting of the church as recorded in Acts. Three hours. NT 512 Epistles and Revelation Using the English New Testament, this course surveys the New Testament epistles and the Apocalypse. Issues of introduction and content receive emphasis as well as a continual focus on the theology of evangelism and on the contemporary relevance of issues these documents raise for contemporary life. Three hours. NT 540–560 Analysis of Selected Books Engages students electing one of these courses in a careful study of the English text of one or more New Testament books. Two hours. NT 590, 690 Studies in New Testament These course numbers are reserved for courses of special or one-time interest that do not otherwise appear in the catalog. Two or three hours.