[B-Greek] "Historic Biblical Pronunciation" vs. Modern?
Raymond Regalado
fwgk5942 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Sat May 1 01:56:50 EDT 2004
On 2004.5.1, at 02:33 PM, David McKay wrote:
> I have enjoyed following along in my Greek NT as Revelation chapter 1
> is
> read. It is at Greg Helding's site, but doesn't say who the reader is.
> This
> sounds much more convincing than the recordings, read by an American
> woman,
> which I previously listened to from the CCEL site.
>
> He certainly speaks with a very low pitched voice, but he makes sense
> of
> what he reads, which I didn't think the woman reader was doing.
>
> What do others think of this attempt?
The reader is J (Joe? John? I forgot) Simon. He explains his
conventions here: http://www.greeklatinaudio.com/
> I am not used to the pronunciation. I am guessing this is the
> reconstructed
> KOINE Greek, which is close to Modern Greek.
The pronunciation is modern Greek, but with some slight differences.
Regards,
Raymond Regalado
Tokyo, Japan
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