Black's "Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek" & modern pronunciation

James Forsyth james at bigbeing.com.au
Thu Nov 14 06:31:59 EST 2002


Hi B-Greek,

One concern I have with Black's "Linguistics for Students of New Testament 
Greek" is that no credence at all is given to the possibility of the 
upsilon sounding like an iota or a beta sounding like an English "V" or a 
delta sounding like a soft theta.

One example of a modern English word where putting one's etymological cap 
on one may say "How long has the upsilon been pronounced that way?" would 
be paralytic vs. PARALUTIKOS.

Further, a diphthong sounding like a consonant in EUANGGELLION (which can 
at times sound like an "f" but in this instance sounding like a "v").  How 
long has this pronunciation been around?

An example of the reverse i.e. something close to Erasmian pronunciation 
actually being used (and here thinking of the delta) would be dendrites 
(apologies, botanic knowledge sadly wanting) vs. DENDRON.

Should this question have been addressed or am I overlooking something that 
should be seen as common knowledge in the field of Koine phonology?  I am 
ready to be corrected.

Thank you,

James Forsyth
(Assoc) DipTh; BA (Youth Affairs); GradDip (SRM)
ICQ: 10747220
james at bigbeing.com.au

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