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

Jonathan Ferguson notchking at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 9 17:48:01 EDT 2004


Thankyou for the kind reply Curtis,
 
Don't most schools and seminaries teach the Erasmian prounciation, so if at first I learned the modern Greek pronunciation, that'd cause problems when in class discussing this with students, etc?  I realize that Erasmian isn't the official way to pronounce Koine, however I was of the understanding that the majorifty of students of Biblical Greek use it to avoid any confusion that could arrise by not having such a uniform pronunciation style.  So what would you or others on the mailing list suggest?

Curtis Hinson <curtis at curtishinson.com> wrote:
Greetings Jonathan,

Erasmian is an artificial pronunciation, basically it's just Greek
pronounced badly in whatever the local accent is, so it actually sounds
different in the USA than in the UK and in Mexico (I have heard for myself.)

I would suggest you study and use the Modern Greek pronunciation. It is the
only pronunciation with a historical connection with ancient Greek, and is
virtually identical to the Byzantine pronunciation. I have the Greek New
Testament in MP3 read by a native Greek speaker, let me know if you want it
and I'll set it up on FTP. There is a growing trend in biblical scholarship
to use the modern pronunciation. I think one way this is helpful is you
should never have to run through a square of stops again to understand why a
vowel contract happens -- it's very obvious in the way the word is
pronounced!

I am entering my eighth semester of Greek. Like you I began teaching myself
Greek from an old grammar during high school. May the Lord bless you
studies.

Bless the Name
Curtis


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


Hello,
I remember this being discussed quite some time back but I wasn't sure
what the answer(s) was. The only knowledge really of Greek that I've
learned I've learned on my own the last year and a half of highschool. I'll
begin classes soon, and was just wanting to make sure my pronunciations of
certain Greek words are in agreement with the Erasmian pronunciation used
today. So basically I'm wondering if someone has come out with the "Greek
New Testament" on CD (audio) that I could listen to. Also, maybe I'll buy
Mounce's tapes or CDs and listen to them as well (I've recently heard that
his new edition of his grammar comes with them on it, I wish I had the new
edition :( ).

On a side note, I remeber that emailing this list from AOL causes problems,
but now I'm using Yahoo.com (since we don't have AOL anymore) so I was just
wanting to make sure that Yahoo mail doesn't cause any problems.

in Christ,
Jonathan Ferguson
working my way through college at Bob Jones University. . .slowly :) Pslam
27:14


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