[B-Greek] Absurdity of Koine Greek accents (was "Allegory about learning Koine Greek")

Nikolaos Adamou nikolaos.adamou at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 22 10:21:32 EDT 2009






I would like to offer some quotations from
the second chapter of: 

 

GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORICAL
RESEARCH

BY

A. T. ROBERTSON, M.A., D.D., LL.D., LITT.D.

Professor of Interpretation of the New Testament in the

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Louisville, Ky.

Digitized by Ted Hildebrandt at Gordon College,
Wenham, MA

March 2006

 

The modern Greek popular speech does
not differ materially from the vernacular Byzantine, and thus connects directly
with the vernacular κοινή.


 ...

Hatzidakis2 even says: "The
language generally spoken to-day in the towns differs less from the common
language of Polybius than this last differs from the language Homer."

 ...

Knowledge of the modern Greek4
helps the student to escape from "the Procrustean bed of the old Greek"
which he learned as a fixed and dead thing.

 ...

Boltz indeed has advocated modern Greek
as the common language for the scholars of the World since Latin is so little
spoken.8

 ...

But the modern Greek vernacular has
more merit than was once conceded to it

 ...

"Speaking generally, we may say
that the Greek of a well-written newspaper [the literary language] is now, as a
rule, far more classical than the Hellenistic of the N. T., but decidedly less
classical than the Greek of Plutarch."2

 ...

"The diction of the N. T. had a
direct influence in moulding the Greek ordinarily used by Christians in the
succeeding centuries."4

 ...

After all, an educated Greek knew what
he meant better than we do.""
Nikolaos Adamou, Ph.D.       Associate Professor of Business Management               BMCC / CUNY                           




> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:57:37 +0300
> From: randallbuth at gmail.com
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] Absurdity of Koine Greek accents (was "Allegory about	learning Koine Greek")
> 
> Christophe, XAIRE
> 
> Thank you for the kind words on the KOINH pronunciation.
> 
> I would like to add an important point for those 'listening':
> 
> we, you and I, agree 100% that it is necessary to speak and use a
> language if we want to internalize it, to really know it. And we
> need to be able to speak with each other with understanding.
> Which also implies being able to hear each other's pronunciation
> with understanding.
> 
> To this we might also want to add a modern Greek to a
> discussion. It is something not always done in New Testament
> studies. I would hope that in the future, New Testament students
> would be able to speak with each other, whatever their background,
> and even with modern Greeks who would take time to listen to our
> archaic ways. Even their occasional problem with YMEIS HMEIS can
> be overcome when speaking face to face.
> 
> blessings
> 
> Randall
> 
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