[B-Greek] Kalos program useable for Koine Greek?
R Yochanan Bitan Buth
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Wed Nov 3 12:44:08 EST 2004
Norbert EGRAPSEN
>Can anyone tell me how different classical greek is from koine greek? I am
considering using the Kalos program to produce verb paradigms for a Koine
database to fill in those forms which are not attested in the NT.
It can be found at: HYPERLINK
"http://www.conjugator.net/produccion/index.php"http://www.conjugator.net/pr
oduccion/index.php.
It is advertised as a classical Greek program. Can this program be used to
fill in those forms which are missing in NT vocabulary?
Norbert Rennert
Canada Institute of Linguistics
Langley, BC >
I run uup against this kind of problem quite a bit, because of trying to use
the language. In general, the classical paradigms ARE the Koine paradigms.
However, please note the word 'in general'. Some of the super irregulars
have regularized in the Koine. There was some fluidity and in many of the
disputed cases (which arn't that many on an absolute scale) both 'old' and
new forms can be found. E.g., EGAMHSEN 'he married' // EGHMEN.
As a check, I would get ahold of a concordance to Josephus. Brill sometimes
sells the hard copies at a discount. Josephus can be found slipping in Koine
forms on occasion, to what is a fairly wide, literary vocab. This can then
be balanced with the notion that Attic paradigms were the norm and could be
used in the early Christian centuries without fear of ridicule. So by all
means, get a set of verb paradigms from Goodwyn or Smyth, and fret not. If
you are interested in further details, there are discussions of this kind of
thing in the reference NT grammars under verb morphology. Moulton-Howard,
Robertson, BDF, Gignac.
ERRWSO
Randall Buth
Randall Buth, PhD
Director, Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
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