[B-Greek] Audio GNT

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 06:32:59 EST 2007


I may be able to help a little, see below.

 >>>David McKay wrote:
> >>> Is it my ignorancwe that makes me find the readings at
> >>> http://www.greeklatinaudio.com/
> >>>
> >>> though incomplete, to be greatly superior?
> >>>
>
> >> Much more interesting to listen to, I agree. This is clearly modern
> >> Greek pronunciation - is there anyone out there who can tell if the guy
> >> speaks like a native?
> >> Jonathan
>
> > Probably Randall.
> > gfsomsel


The Greek readings are neither 'fish nor fowl'. (based on listening to one
chapter)
However, they are understandable and read at a nice pace that gives them a
sense of being a real communication. That is probably the source of the
comments about being more pleasing to listen to than some unspecified
reading.

However, specific questions were asked. So they will be addressed.
The vowels are fairly consistently in line with modern Greek's five vowel
system, though there are mis-reads or inconsistencies at times. However, the
consonants are not what one would expect of modern Greek, at least not the
dialects that I am familiar with. They are consistently too hard.

[[The Hebrew is something else altogether, and very distracting, even
offensive, to hear the tetragrammaton misread doubly wrong--first by trying
to vocalize it (that is not the Masoretic text's intention) and then be
reading the wrong vowels, vowels that were intended for other words (either
adonai or elohim) in the MT. There is no such thing as a word "yehova" in
Hebrew.]]

Bottom line: I can't recommend the Hebrew readings,
but the Greek readings should provide nice listening in a 'mixed artificial'
reading.
(-- for someone who doesn't want to pay for Spiros' readings, wants
something at a more natural pace than McPheister's "inverted-9 vowel
academic" [by memory, haven't heard it for a long time], and doesn't care
about a Koine reading, either.) The reading is understandable, which is a
big plus, but not how I would want to end up sounding if I were looking for
a model.

ERRWSQE
Randall Buth



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