[B-Greek] Pronunciation rules

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Tue Oct 4 07:37:35 EDT 2005


 
Hi Sean,
 
My youngest homeschooler has just started college, but he toyed with the  
classical languages for years. Now I'm buckling down and really tackling this  
Greek alone, with the intention of finally making some progress.
 
Whenever in doubt, I use the pronunciations in Strong's concordance as my  
rock. I do need to convert a few things though to the more common American Koine 
 erasmian. Note the following changes:
 
ai (ahee) > ai (eye) or (igh) or (...i...e)
ei (eye) or (...i...e) > ei (ay)
 
For example Strong says KAI is (kahee) and I change it to (kigh) like  (high)
 
I usually put a macron on to the "o"s for the Omegas as well. Otherwise I  
use them as is, and find them VERY helpful!! You can get a nice pdf of the  
Strong's greek dictionary here.
_http://www.christianhospitality.org/archives.htm_ 
(http://www.christianhospitality.org/archives.htm) 
 
Mounce makes me CRAZY. I cannot listen to him. His "this is the way my  
teacher taught me" doesn't work for me.
 
The audios on the "Mastering New Testament Greek" are pretty consistent.  The 
21 lesson audio for Dobson's new 3rd edition book is decent, but you will  
hear a bit of attic erasmian mixed in. I especially notice it in THEOS, which he 
 says as (thay-os) rather than (the-os).
 
Kat Doe
homemaker
 
In a message dated 10/3/2005 5:54:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
seank at microsoft.com writes:


My  son and I are studying Biblical Greek for this year's homeschool
elective.  We have Dr. Bill Mounce's book, workbook and lectures on CD.
We are only  into Chapter 4 so this might be a premature question that is
covered later  on in the book, but we are encountering our first
vocabulary words and  trying to be good students we are guessing at the
pronunciations given what  we learned in Chapter 3 about letter sounds,
long and short vowels,  diphthongs, gamma nasals, diaresis and iota
subscripts and there is one  word we just can't understand how Dr. Mounce
pronounces the way he  does.

Pilatos (Pi iota lambda alpha tau omicron sigma) Dr. Mounce  pronouces
the the iota with the same sound as the i in the english phrase  "I am"
or the diphthong ai (alpha iota) I can't find a rule anywhere that  says
I pronouce it that way. Are there exceptions in Greek pronounciation  the
way there are in English. Someone I asked thought that perhaps this  was
a Latin word that had be translated into Greek and so Dr. Mounce  was
using the Latin pronouncation.

Any help?

Sean  Kelly


 



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