[B-Greek] RE: Audio/Visual Koine Greek learning tools

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Fri Mar 4 04:28:02 EST 2005


Shalom Georg,

Thank you for the response and good ideas. Would you be able to forward a script of "God's story" for me to know about how much material we are talking about? 

As you mentioned, with a narrator (or perhaps 2-3?) and the frreedom to have longer or shorter readings than the original, it might be a smoother fit as a Koine project. It would be for an intermediate/advanced level, of course, because the original was not set up to teach via immersion. However, it is exactly material like this that is missing for Greek students. And we could purposefully try to keep the Greek material as basic as possible within good style.
ERRWSO ἔρρωσο

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Georg Hagedorn [mailto:320065345156-0001 at t-online.de] 
Sent: Thursday, 03 March, 2005 23:56
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Subject: Audio/Visual Koine Greek learning tools


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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