[B-Greek] "hearing" Greek (NT on CD, tapes, etc)

Terry and Gail Cook cookie99 at fuse.net
Fri Apr 9 16:52:14 EDT 2004


Marilyn Phemister @ http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/gnt/home.html
Terry Cook
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Weiss" <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] "hearing" Greek (NT on CD, tapes, etc)


> Jonathan Pennington has recorded (using Erasmian pronunciation) all the NT
passages from Mounce's GRADED GREEK READER, plus all of I John and the
Sermon on the Mount. 2 CDs, from Zondervan. He makes a few mistakes (I
noticed a couple in Romans 5 -- e.g., he says apethanon, when it should be
apethanen; I think he pauses AFTER eirenen, rather than before it, in 5:1),
and he pronounces iota usually as a short "i" so, e.g., "epi" -- which I
usually pronounce kind of like "eh-pee" -- is pronounced like "eh-pi" (as in
"pin"). That said, I think it's quite good for pronunciation and read-along
practice, and he has a great voice to listen to. There is also a Mary
Phemister(?) who has recorded the entire Westcott-Hort GNT on the Internet,
which you can listen to for free -- again using the Erasmian pronunciation.
Spiros Zodhiates has recorded the entire GNT on audiotape using the Modern
Greek pronunciation, which is more similar to NT-times pronunciation than
Erasmian is, if one compa
>  res both
>  with Randall Buth's work on Koine Greek pronunciation.
>
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> Eric S. Weiss
> http://www.geocities.com/papaweiss1/index.htm
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