[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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