[B-Greek] Online teaching tools

Sarah Madden sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Sat Dec 8 10:35:15 EST 2007


Thanks, Susan, for an excellent discourse -- it certainly makes sense to me
to stick with one pronunciation to learn the words -- but to be exposed to
other pronunciations to get a sense of the richness of the language!
(Re. your post, thanks on behalf of everyone for the kind wishes of grace
and peace. I would only add a lowercase "h" to "UMIN" to match the B-Greek
conventions of adding a lowercase "h" to show rough breathing, but it's
still understandable.)

Sarah Madden

On Dec 8, 2007 10:21 AM, Susan Jeffers <susan at read-the-bible.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---------
>
> 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
>



-- 
Sarah
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