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Start Date
12 January @ 9:00 am
End Date
16 January @ 4:00 pm
Location
Hobart
SUMMER SCHOOL IN KOINE AND BIBLICAL GREEK
12 – 16 JANUARY, 2026
This five-day intensive school is for beginners who want to experience the excitement of reading parts of the Bible and early Christian literature in the original language. We shall read extracts from the Gospel and Epistles, as well as some important passages from the Septuagint (the ancient Greek version of the Old Testament), as well as some pieces from the early Fathers of the Church and the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
This course is suitable for beginners, provided that they are willing to undertake preliminary work on the Greek alphabet (to be provided) before the course begins.
Fr John Wall Community Library, in the rear of 31 Tower Road, New Town, Tasmania (about two kms from central Hobart – we will provide a map)
Monday 12 January to Friday 16 January 2026
9.00 am to 3.00 pm each day for five days
Tuition Fee $300 (concession available) includes workbook
A proportion of the proceeds from enrolments will go to ther Christopher Dawson Centre
Registrations are essential: email Dr David Daintree dccdain@gmail.com
Prior knowledge of Greek is not essential, but beginners are advised to purchase a self-instruction primer and work on the basics between now and the start of the course. It is particularly important to begin the course with a comfortable recognition knowledge of the Greek alphabet, otherwise learning even basic grammar and vocabulary will be frustrating and inefficient. Participants will never be embarrassed if their Greek is imperfect: the teaching method leaves the entire task of translation and exposition to the Lecturer. This approach has been useful to relative beginners as well as those who are more experienced.
Each intending participant should purchase, as soon as possible, a primer of New Testament Greek. There are many available, but a good choice is Gavin Betts, Complete New Testament Greek: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding New Testament Greek with Original Texts. Langenscheidt’s pocket Greek Dictionary is also useful.
The Lecturer is Dr David Daintree who founded the Annual Latin Summer School in Hobart in 1993. To enrol and for further information contact David Daintree at dccdain@gmail.com.
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Hobart
Date :
12
January
2026
Time :
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost :
$300
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NEW TESTAMENT GREEK – BEGINNERS’ SUMMER SCHOOL
NEW TESTAMENT GREEK – BEGINNERS’ SUMMER SCHOOL
Organiser
Christopher Dawson Centre
dccdain@gmail.com
0408879494
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SUMMER SCHOOL IN KOINE AND BIBLICAL GREEK
12 – 16 JANUARY, 2026
This five-day intensive school is for beginners who want to experience the excitement of reading parts of the Bible and early Christian literature in the original language. We shall read extracts from the Gospel and Epistles, as well as some important passages from the Septuagint (the ancient Greek version of the Old Testament), as well as some pieces from the early Fathers of the Church and the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
This course is suitable for beginners, provided that they are willing to undertake preliminary work on the Greek alphabet (to be provided) before the course begins.
Fr John Wall Community Library, in the rear of 31 Tower Road, New Town, Tasmania (about two kms from central Hobart – we will provide a map)
Monday 12 January to Friday 16 January 2026
9.00 am to 3.00 pm each day for five days
Tuition Fee $300 (concession available) includes workbook
A proportion of the proceeds from enrolments will go to ther Christopher Dawson Centre
Registrations are essential: email Dr David Daintree dccdain@gmail.com
Prior knowledge of Greek is not essential, but beginners are advised to purchase a self-instruction primer and work on the basics between now and the start of the course. It is particularly important to begin the course with a comfortable recognition knowledge of the Greek alphabet, otherwise learning even basic grammar and vocabulary will be frustrating and inefficient. Participants will never be embarrassed if their Greek is imperfect: the teaching method leaves the entire task of translation and exposition to the Lecturer. This approach has been useful to relative beginners as well as those who are more experienced.
Each intending participant should purchase, as soon as possible, a primer of New Testament Greek. There are many available, but a good choice is Gavin Betts, Complete New Testament Greek: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding New Testament Greek with Original Texts. Langenscheidt’s pocket Greek Dictionary is also useful.
The Lecturer is Dr David Daintree who founded the Annual Latin Summer School in Hobart in 1993. To enrol and for further information contact David Daintree at dccdain@gmail.com.