Format:
xviii, 169 pages
,
26 cm
ISBN:
9781725254480
,
1725254484
,
9781725254497
,
1725254492
Content:
This book invites you to see not only how Hellenistic Koine ought to be pronounced but also why. Rigorously investigating the history of Greek orthography and sounds from classical times to the present, the author places linguistic findings on one side of the scale and related events on the other. The result is a balance between the evidence of the historical Greek sounds in Koine and pre-Koine times, and the political events that derailed those sounds as they were being transported through Europe's Renaissance academia and replaced them with Erasmian. This book argues for a return to the historical Greek sounds now preserved in Neohellenic (Modern Greek) as a step toward mending the Erasmian dichotomy that rendered post-Koine Greek irrelevant to New Testament Greek studies. The goal is a holistic and diachronic application of the Hellenic language and literature to illume exegetically the Greek text, as the New Testament contains numerous features that have close affinity with Neohellenic and should not be left unexplored
Content:
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Why This Book -- Pronounciation Matters -- Questions -- Chapter 1: The Development of Κοινή -- Chapter 2: The Phonology of Κοινή and Its Similiarities to Neohellenic -- Chapter 3: The Historical Greek Pronouncation -- Chapter 4: Origins and Nature of the Erasmian Pronouncation -- Chapter 5: Erasmian Misconceptions -- Chapter 6: Erasmian Latitudes -- Chapter 7: The Erasmian Harm and the Remedy -- Chapter 8: Pronouncation Tips -- Appendix 1: Decrees of Classical Athans and Their Historical Sounds -- Appendix 2: Changes in the Attic Alphabet and Their Significance -- Appendix 3: Greek Dimorphia -- Appendix 4: Formal/Informal Pronouncation -- Appendix 5: Chronological Table of the Changes in the Attic Alphabet -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes (pages 155-169)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bibel
;
Griechisch
;
Aussprache
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