[B-Greek] Reading Greek Out loud

Christopher Shelton christophershelt at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 21:54:02 EDT 2008


Pheister's Greek is horrendous.  Try Sorgyl or Vanderbuilt or, if you want a 
treat try Prof. Pozzi's site at the University of Houston.
Christopher Shelton----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Reading Greek Out loud


>I am curently practicing reading Greek  out loud.  I am using A Reader's 
>Greek New Testament, by Goodrich and Lukaszewski for the text and Marilyn 
>Phemister's oral readings at 
>http://www.archive.org/details/GreekNewTestament-2Thessalonians01-ReadByMarilynPhemister-Brought 
>I downloaded 1.1 and I am off to the races.  . ... will be fluent by week's 
>end, the actual year of this event is not yet determined.
>
> She has placed her work in the public domain.
>
> Comments?
>
> Pastor John Smithson (ret.)
> jsjohn at aol.com
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> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: John Wilking <jcwilking at yahoo.com>
>
>> This isn't a grammatical question. I had never even heard of the 
>> proceedings
>> from some of the early church councils. MacMullen indicates that the 
>> Greek has
>> been "little visited". (I guess I'm being blown away by its contents.) 
>> Have
>> these documents been a part of common knowledge?
>>
>> John C. Wilking
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 7/18/08, John Wilking wrote:
>>
>> > From: John Wilking
>> > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What to read -Enchiridion Christian Paraphrases
>> > To: "Louis Sorenson"
>> > Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>> > Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 3:15 PM
>> > I was just reading Ramsay MacMullen's Voting About God
>> > in Early Church Councils who says, concerning conciliar
>> > acta, "that a great deal of common speech is on
>> > display, because of the stenographic quality of the text.
>> > Nowhere else in the written record of antiquity is there a
>> > match for this. All sorts of grammatical constructions,
>> > word choices, meanings of words, and departures from a
>> > careful, educated style turn up in both the Greek and
>> > Latin." (p.10)
>> >
>> > John c. Wilking
>> >
>> > --- On Fri, 7/18/08, Louis Sorenson
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > From: Louis Sorenson
>> > > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What to read -Enchiridion
>> > Christian Paraphrases
>> > > To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>> > > Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 12:45 AM
>> > > Mark Lightman wrote: > I agree that the Enchiridion
>> > > (Encheiridion, Manual, Handbook) is also worth
>> > reading.?
>> > > There is a recent critical edition which includes the
>> > > Christian paraphrases, which I would recommend because
>> > they
>> > > are a little easier than the originial. <
>> > >
>> > > The work he mentions is by Gerard Boter, 1999. The
>> > > Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian
>> > > Adaptations: Transmission & Critical Editions.
>> > Leiden:
>> > > Brill ($280). It contains the Enchiridion Greek text
>> > and
>> > > English translation and the Greek text of the three
>> > > Christian adaptations of the Enchiridion. GoogleBooks
>> > > Preview
>> > >
>> > > There is a commentary in French on the Paraphrasis
>> > > Christiana: Spanneut, Michel. 2007. Commentaire sur la
>> > > Paraphrase chrétienne du
>> > > Manuel d'Epictète. France: Les Editions du Cerf
>> > > (http://www.editionsducerf.fr -- I believe it has the
>> > Greek
>> > > text). Worldcat Le Éditions du Cerf
>> > >
>> > > Johann Schweighauser's 1800 Epicteteae Monumenta
>> > Tomus
>> > > V GoogleBooks has of both the Paraphrasis Christian
>> > and
>> > > Saint Nilus' adaptation. The Greek text of both
>> > > adaptations be found in clear new scans on the
>> > > LetsReadGreek Enchiridion bibliography page
>> > >
>> >
>> (http://www.letsreadgreek.com/Epictetus/bibliography.htm#christianadaptations).
>> > > Paraphrasis Christiana LetsReadGreek pdf extract and
>> > > Nilus' Enchiridion LetsReadGreek pdf extract
>> > >
>> > > Louis Sorenson
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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