[B-Greek] fearful about switching to modern pronunciation

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Thu Sep 15 08:04:24 EDT 2005


 
Yeah, but I like the Machen book. It's one of my favorites :-0 It's  the only 
one that really works for me in composing and I want to learn to WRITE  in 
Greek so I can make up supplementary worksheets for students when I  eventually 
teach Greek.
 
Where is the best place to buy the Divine Liturgy?
 
Kat Doe
Homemaker
 
In a message dated 9/14/2005 8:07:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com writes:

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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