[B-Greek] Re: How do modern Greeks pronounce Biblical Greek?
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 8 15:30:57 EDT 2005
At 08:08 PM 4/8/2005 +0200, R Yochanan Bitan Buth wrote:
>Greeks do not consider Erasmian pronunciation to be Greek.
>It neither sounds like Greek, nor even like a language in the mouths
>of most.
To make matters worse, the way Erasmian is spoken in the
U.S. doesn't even sound like what Erasmian is supposed to be.
>Chrys Caragonis has a long essay in Filología Neotestamentaria 8
>(1995), 151-185. THE ERROR OF ERASMUS AND UN-GREEK PRONUNCIATIONS OF
>GREEK. It is quite interesting reading, though technical and citing a
>lot of Greek texts that a student of NT Greek may not be prepared to
>read.
My impression of this essay is that Caragounis was too aggresive
in dating some of the phonetic changes, did not take sufficient
account of the particular phonetic contexts of his evidence, and
seemed uninformed about contemporary Latin pronunciation. I might
be wrong about the essay, but I feel that the evidence has been
much better evaluated, for example, in the following:
>If you would like a short ten-page survey of pronunciation options,
>with ancient evidence and clarification of the different systems,
>please see www.biblicalulpan.org under "courses" "greek materials"
>download of PDF on Koine Pronunciation.
Stephen
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