[B-Greek] Online teaching tools
Susan Jeffers
susan at read-the-bible.org
Sat Dec 8 10:21:10 EST 2007
I encourage my students to master the Erasmian pronunciation and to read
aloud along with audio recordings to "get it down." Over the years I've
collected recordings in Erasmian and modern or pseudo-modern Greek.
I only know of one online recording of biblical Greek with modern Greek
pronunciation, which someone mentioned on this thread previously:
http://www.greeklatinaudio.com/
If there are others I'd like to hear about them.
The only other modern Greek pronunciation biblical Greek audio
recordings I know of, on or off-line, is Spiros Zodhiates' "Koine Greek
New Testament" CD set, available e.g. from Christian Book Distributors
for $74.99.
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For what it's worth, I advise my students to choose one pronunciation
scheme and stick with it, for their own reading aloud and memorization,
and to use Erasmian unless they have some reason to do otherwise (e.g.
if they have some connection to modern Greek through family or
religion). HOWEVER I provide an assortment of different recordings,
using modern and Erasmian, so they can hear different voices and
pronunciations. I think this is valuable for the same reason that it's
not much use to learn a modern language if you're clueless about any
manner of speaking other than your instructor's -- I've attended enough
SBL sessions to know that scholars use a lot of individual variations in
our speech among ourselves!
For students who are particularly keen to hear and perhaps learn a
variety of pronunciations (most are NOT), I sometimes mention Randall
Buth's "Living Koine Greek for Everyone" (http://www.biblicalulpan.org/,
click on Courses then click on Greek Materials) and its Greek Demo
Lesson. I'm a great admirer of this method but long ago despaired of
being able to use it in my own courses. Particularly since I only teach
online.
I look forward to seeing what other audio resources folks might have --
CARIS UMIN KAI EIRHNH -- did I do that right? -- I wish I knew how to
make unicode appear in my posts -- I just came back to b-greek after
having been off-list for a year or two and was delighted to see Greek
characters appear in many of the posts I receive from b-greek, but
darned if I know how to type them, myself ---
Susan Jeffers
Adjunct faculty: Bethany Theological Seminary, Episcopal Theological
Seminary of the Southwest, Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center and
occasionally Earlham School of Religion
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