[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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