[B-Greek] Jesus of Nazareth (Movie) in Greek?
Vasile STANCU
stancu at mail.dnttm.ro
Mon Sep 13 02:15:20 EDT 2010
I would very much like to participate in this project - especially with Jesus of Nazareth. And it is the reading that I prefer to do. As for acceptable dialects, it is not easy, I believe, to get too many persons that are really in agreement with one another over one dialect or another. As for myself, I can be consistent with the system I am presently using and I could represent some isolated individual (perhaps a foreigner like one of the wise men of the east, or Pilate, or the centurion, etc.) whose pronounciation, even if somewhat different from the majority of the others', could be acceptable. Or, why not, one of the Galileans, like Peter, whose language was evidently different from the Judeans'.
Vasile Stancu
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Louis Sorenson
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Subject: [B-Greek] Jesus of Nazareth (Movie) in Greek?
Hello all,
After watching the movie "Lord of the Rings" and also "Jesus of Nazareth", I think that it would be a very
positive and rewarding project to try to make audio, text of the audio, and text of the actions of one of these
movies in ancient Greek.
I think one of the best video projects would be to create such a resource for the movie Jesus of Nazareth.
This was/is a movie/miniseries about the life and death of Christs. You can read an article on Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_of_Nazareth_%28miniseries%29 . Any other movies about Jesus would
also be an option for such a project. Another movie / movie series under consideration would be C.S. Lewis'
The Chronicles of Narnia, but even moreso, the series by J.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.
What would need to be created is 1) the text and 2) the audio (in a consistent dialect) of the script, and 3)
captions/subtitles of the actions which occur side-by-side with the audio of the movie. This is a project which
I think can be accomplished in a year or two. The first book of Harry Potter has been translated into Attic.
It has received good reviews. There are many more students of New Testament Greek than there are of Attic.
Many students of New Testament Greek would view such a video over and over again. Many voices would
be required to create such an audio, along with a subscript text of the action.
Those who would want to participate in such a year/two year endeavor must be able to do one of two things:
1) Read Greek aloud with emotion and an accent/dialect amenable to all (perhaps Randall Buth's Restored
Koine) and/or 2) have the technical ability (advanced Greek skills) of being able to write captions and
transcribe the script of one of the movies in the common Koine dialect.
Perhaps we could start such a project a year from now, once people are lined up. What do you think? It
would probably take a year or two to finish.
TI FRONEIS; τί φρονεῖς;
Louis Sorenson
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