[B-Greek] How about a B-Greek Audio Bible
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 5 15:37:21 EST 2009
Louis wrote:
<Perhaps we could pretend Erasimans are from Pontus
and Buthians from Alexandria. Why can't we all get along?>
I sometimes think that we Erasimans and Buthians could
be described with the same words that Bertrand Russel used to
describe England and America: two great peoples separated
by a common language. Why, indeed, can't we?
Mark L
FWSFOROS MARKOS
--- On Sat, 12/5/09, Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] How about a B-Greek Audio Bible
To: "B-Greek List mail to all" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>, "Marylin Phemister" <windmill65 at yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 1:13 PM
If there were a B-Greek audio Bible, A dialect would have to be chosen.
I think the funnest part of this could be having different people record
different parts of the dramatizable portions of the NT. That way, we could
have a narrator, Jesus, Peter, John, Nicodemus, Mary, Martha, the Pharisees,
etc., all in different voices. We could even add a little background
noise and music for enjoyment.
One can hear (in English) some of the English Standard Version Audio
Drama New Testament at http://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/ambassador/free-audio-bible-download
This is the sort of stuff I would like to listen to in Koine Greek.
Rico has numerous voices in his dialogues.
http://poliskoine.com/site/?page_id=17
http://poliskoine.com/site/wp-content/uploads/audio1.mp3
http://poliskoine.com/site/wp-content/uploads/audio2.mp3
Buth's audio (http://www.biblicalulpan.org) also has several voices in some recordings.
And though Rico has more multi-person dialogues than Buth, I doubt, however,
that anyone would want to master Rico's eccentric pronunciations.
An aside. Remember, English has 17 spellings for the sound [i]. Modern Greek has only five vowel sounds:
a, i, o, ε, ou. ([i] for υ, ι, η, οι, ῃ, ει). Spell-talk diminishes language understanding --
i.e. a person gets more worried about how to spell any given word rather than to understand
it in its context when listening. It is like demanding that English words be pronounced
differently when they are spelt identically. Perhaps we could pretend Erasimans are from Pontus
and Buthians from Alexandria. Why can't we all get along? Then again, I am in the Buthian
minority, so perhaps I should be in Pontus. Wasn't Pontus captured by the Romans a whole
century later than Alexandria?
Just some more ideas. Thanks again for your suggestions Marylin.
Louis Sorenson
>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:07:12 -0600
>From: Marilyn Phemister <windmill65 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] How about a B-Greek audio Bible?
>I was delighted to find from Louis Sorenson's web site that my files are
>no longer the only full set of Audio Greek New Testament files. You can
>find John Simon's work at http://www.helding.net/greeklatinaudio/greek/
>If you don't care for the Erasmian approach, you might like John (Simon). And
>the price is right. Rico's website is http://poliskoine.com/site/ (His
>pronunciation is a mixed bag of Erasmian, Restored Attic, Modern/Restored
>Koine (imoho). Rico has some multi-person audio on his website:
Marilyn Phemister
Marilyn Phemister wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> Before and after I made my audio files of the Greek New Testament, I
> hoped others would do the same thing. Different scholars on B-Greek
> could volunteer to record various passages and they could be stored on
> Internet Archive and linked from the B-Greek web site. If enough people
> did this, we could possibly have the LXX and the GNT available in both
> Erasmian and modern Greek pronunciation, hopefully by a number of
> readers, and hopefully free.
>
> I gained enormously by listening to my own recordings, but also
> benefited from listening to Maurice Robinson reading the Byzantine
> Majority Text.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Marilyn Phemister
>
>
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