[B-Greek] Choice of transliterations for "David"?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Aug 24 05:35:13 EDT 2003


At 9:42 PM -0400 8/23/03, Trevor Peterson wrote:
>>===== Original Message From "Eric Weiss" <eweiss at gte.net> =====
>>This raises a question for me: Since modern Greek pronounces AU and EU
>>as av/af and ev/ef, is it possible that this was also done in Koine
>>times?
>
>Isn't it actually a bilabial (rather than labio-dental)? Isn't beta also
>pronounced as a bilabial fricative? If that's the case, there would be no
>difference in pronounciation between the two spellings.

It is true that they would have been pronounced the same, and I can believe
that the B might have become a common later spelling, but certainly in the
NT era an intervocalic U was pronounced as a "v".
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Carl W. Conrad
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