[B-Greek] Vamvas Greek Bible

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Feb 4 09:16:03 EST 2011


Suzanne McCarthy, who has previously had nice things to say about
the Vamvas Greek version of the GNT, notes in her blog today
(http://powerscourt.blogspot.com/2011/02/vamva-greek-bible.html)
that the whole version, including the OT, is accessible online at:

http://www.gospel.gr/

For those who don't know about it, I cite from Suzanne's notice:

"This 19th century version of the Bible by Neofitos Vamvas, 
a distinguished linguist and noted Bible scholar, was published 
in 1850 with the collaboration of British and Foreign Bible 
Society (BFBS). It was not accepted by the Greek Orthodox 
Church which continues to use a version of the original 
Greek New Testament and the Septuagint translation of 
the Hebrew Bible."

I guess one would call this a Katharevousa version; for one
whose Modern Greek is not quite equal to his/her ancient
Greek (i.e. myself) , this is a delightful version to read.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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