How Does a Classical Languages Degree Prepare for Exegesis and Koiné?, with Jon Laansma

<p><a href= "https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/jon-laansma/">Jon Laansma</a> is Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis in the <a href= "https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/programs/classical-languages---greek-latin-hebrew/"> Classical Languages</a> program at Wheaton College. He regularly teaches Greek 101-102 along with upper-division Greek rapid reading courses that translate whole books of the NT and Church Fathers. One such class reads through all of Luke-Acts. Another pairs several Pauline letters with letters of Ignatius and Polycarp, as well as a few chapters from the Epistle to Diognetus. A third iteration pairs books from the General Epistles of the NT with Martyrdom of Polycarp, Didache, and other non-NT selections. The Classical Languages program as a whole offers similar opportunities for Hebrew, Latin, and Classical Greek texts.</p>