[B-Greek] Lord's Prayer in Greek

Raymond Regalado fwgk5942 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Fri Apr 30 19:24:10 EDT 2004


On 2004.5.1, at 04:11  AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> I rather suspect that most of those seminarians taught Erasmian Greek 
> in
> different schools would have considerable difficulty understanding the
> Greek pronounced by those from other schools: there isn't even a 
> consistent
> pronunciation of Erasmian--which is why the notion of "pure" Erasmian 
> has
> to seem to me pretty much a fantasy.

By "pure" Erasmian I was thinking that perhaps the International 
Phonetic Association standards could be followed.  I was under the 
impression that the IPA was a true "world standard", i.e. that the 
sounds it was meant to represent are "constant" and not "in flux" from 
country to country.

> And if one is going to do that, then would it not make more sense to 
> adopt
> and practice a pronunciation that has some sound basis in a historical
> reconstruction of the way the language actually was spoken at some 
> point in
> its history?

Point taken.  I will strive to learn the "historical" pronunciation (as 
shown here: http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/biblical.html )

Kind Regards,

Raymond Regalado
Tokyo, Japan




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