[B-Greek] fearful about switching to modern pronunciation
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 14 20:07:21 EDT 2005
I showed my new students my copy of John Chrysostom's
DIVINE LITURGY, Greek on one side, English on the
other (Holy Cross Orthodox Press), and explained that
after they've been in the class for about 5 months, we
can take a voluntary "field trip" to Holy Trinity
Greek Orthodox Church in Dallas on a Sunday morning
for the Divine Liturgy, and they should be able to
"follow along." I.e., a living experience of
Koine/Byzantine Greek. In fact, one of my students was
raised in that church, but never learned Greek - so
he's in my class to do so.
I am giving them the option of using Erasmian or
Koine/Modern Greek pronunciation, but they'll probably
all choose Erasmian, as that is what the textbook uses
(*sigh*).
GO FOR IT! My only caveat would be that, based on
comments here at B-Greek, Machen is not the best book
to learn NT Greek from (I've never used it, though),
even in the new revised Machen that was just published
(and got a negative review for much the same reasons
that Machen is not the preferred text these days).
Eric S. Weiss
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