[B-Greek] Lord's Prayer in Greek

Raymond Regalado fwgk5942 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Fri Apr 30 14:30:17 EDT 2004


On 2004.5.1, at 03:22  AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> At 2:54 AM +0900 5/1/04, Raymond Regalado wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I've mentioned before that I'm trying to cultivate a "pure Erasmian"
>> <grin> pronunciation.
>
> Why on earth? If, as you admit, the notion of a "pure Erasmian"
> pronunciation is a joke, does that mean that you're producing this
> sound-byte as a joke?

It wasn't a joke, Dr. Conrad.  Why Erasmian?  Because I hear that in 
almost every seminary Greek is taught in Erasmian (I could be wrong).  
Mounce teaches in Erasmian.  Pennington's CD's are in Erasmian.  The 
only complete audio recordings of the (WH) Greek text available online 
is in ("American-style") Erasmian...  So, Erasmian is still going 
strong, it seemed to me, and I thought I might as well practice "good 
Erasmian", but I have no one to teach me, no one to imitate, as I am 
self-taught.

> If one is going to make a serious effort to recreate the pronunciation 
> of
> the NT  era, one probably ought to go with Randall Buth's 
> reconstruction:
>
> 	ELLHNIKH SCOLH "Living Koine Greek for Everyone":
> 		http://www.biblicalulpan.org/

I've listened before to the sample (1Jn1) on Dr. Buth's site, and I 
think it is simply *beautiful* -- the pronunciation, intonation and 
all.  It sounds pretty much like Modern Greek pronunciation.  Someday 
I'd like to learn that, but, oh, those iotas! ;-)

Thanks,

Raymond Regalado
Tokyo, Japan




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