[B-Greek] Audio/Visual Koine Greek learning tools
Georg Hagedorn
320065345156-0001 at T-Online.de
Thu Mar 3 16:56:00 EST 2005
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il wrote:
<Ah, so now what for ancient Greek? I contacted the Jesus film folk
<several years ago for doing a Koine Greek version. Unfortunately, we
<havent found the $50,000 it would take to edit, record and process
<the Koine Greek edition. [Donations accepted. :-) that is
<tongue-in-cheek because it will be a long time before funds would be
<gathered, and possibly more before good actors/voices would be able to
<produce natural sounding Greek at movie quality. There is another
<probablem in needing to match the syllables and edited script to the
<syllables of the video. With modern languages one simply edits and
<finds words that will fit. With the NT text, how much editing would be
<tolerated to fit the video mouthings?]
It may be abit off topic.The idea to utilize ears and eyes to enhance the immersion into the language is fantastic.
I'm involved in Christian media and literature work. Beside producing videos, a big part of what we do is to translate and dub/synchronize existing videos into German and other languages.
Ib would be thrilled to work on such a project with phenemic Koine Grrek. While it might be difficult to do this with the JESUS FILM, there may be other productions, that could be used. For Example, we translated "God's Story", a synopsis of God's unfolding plan in history into German, Albanian and Kurdish. The text consists mostly of Bible quotations blended together. It's dramatized with animation, sounds, music, etc, so it could be used as video or audio only. Why npot doing it in Koine?
If somebody can translate the script into Koine and if there is a narrator (only one needed), I could provide the technical equipment and edit such a project.
Georg
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