[B-Greek] Fw: NT Greek Scholars in Greece?
Don Doherty
dgdoherty at optusnet.com.au
Wed Sep 30 21:38:58 EDT 2009
An interesting historical note:
In his "A Grammar of NewTestament Greek" first published in 1906, Moulton
observes in his chapter 'History of the "Common" Greek' (pp. 29-30),
"Finally we have Modern Greek to bring in. The discovery that the vernacular
of today goes back historically to the KOINE was made in 1834 by Heilmaier,
in a book on the origin on the "Romaic". This discovery once established,
it became clear that we could work back from Modern Greek to reconstruct the
otherwise imperfectly known oral Greek of the Hellenistic age. It is
however only in the last generation that the importance of this method has
been adequately recognised". (p.29)
"The gulf between the ancient and the modern is bridged by the material
collected and arranged by Jannaris in his Historical Greek Grammar. The
study of a Gospel in the vernacular version of Pallis [Liverpool, 1902] will
at first produce the impression that the gulf is very wide indeed; but the
strong points of contact will become very evident in time. Hatzidakis
indeed even goes so far as to assert that "the language generally spoken
to-day in the towns differs less from the common language of Polybius than
this last differs from the language of Homer."" (p.30)
Don Doherty
Currimundi, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vasileios Tsialas" <tsialas78 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] NT Greek Scholars in Greece?
> Dear Eddie Mishoe,
> I wouldn't accept, and many scholars would
> not also, that Hellenistic Greek is "a completely different language" from
> Modern Greek, since Hellenistic Greek is the basis of our Modern Greek,
> the
> grammar and the vocabulary being similar to a great extent.
> In addition, now all
> Greek high school students have as a lesson both Classical and Hellenistic
> Greek for more than three years.
>
> Vasileios Tsialas
> Athens, Greece
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