Learn the Biblical Greek Alphabet in 12 Minutes 

Karin G Griffin ....hi, I’m 68 and decided to learn Greek alphabet because of the hurricanes !

62 and would like to learn Biblical Koine Greek, it would be awesome to be able to read the Textus Receptus!

You all are an inspiration. I'm only 23 but I love your humility in continuing to learn

i dont mean to be off topic but does anyone know a method to get back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb lost my account password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me

30 here by the Grace of Christ I would love to read the new testament in Greek thanks for the inspiration God bless

Right, I am a mathematician and have been pronouncing the letters wrong, just like the guy in this video. I have recently tried to learn how they are really pronounced and there are quite a few videos here on RU-vid that do that.

​@@tannhaeuserx464 Any recommendations for videos?

*YAWN*

I'm not sure I agree with your transliteration comment.

Modern Greek pronunciation is different from Biblical Greek.

They know. The point is to memorize the letters so you can read them. If he does the correct Greek pronunciation it will cause morons like me to be confused about what letter he is referring to.

I am trying to read a dead language not travel to Greece 😉

@@nursingninja Learning something wrong because it is easier ? What's the point in that ?

@@sornok3534 dead language friend. Nobody knows how koine Greek was pronounced.

Έχεις δίκαιο Νικόλαε. This is a low standard lecture. Terrible pronunciation. Sorry professor.

you should have watched until the end...

@@justinbayola Thanks, I see he mentions capitals at the end.

In Modern Greek, the pronunciation is different from the ones in the video η, ι, υ all make the ι sound β makes the v sound γ makes a *y*es sound δ makes a *th*at sound

He's using the erasmian pronunciation, as he mentioned in the video.

Well, it does depend on language. My first language is portuguese, and we call it pee instead of pie. But I do get your point (like how he calls beta beeta instead of beh-ta)

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Your Lord, maybe - not everyone is superstitious...

@@deborahkeesee7412 Deborah, people who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are not "superstitious." There are good, logical reasons to believe. Those who reject Christ will, sadly, stand before Him one day in judgment. This will happen whether you believe now or not. I hope and pray you see the light before it is forever too late for you. And if you are one of those people who think this amazing universe and world we live in accidentally evolved from chaos and nothingness, well, I feel sorry for you. You are blinded.

This is Koine Greek which makes the pronunciation different than what you as a Greek person would speak.

@@americandowninbrazil True, Koine Greek pronunciation was different than Modern Greek, but no one really knows how it was pronounced exactly, that's why even when we are teaching an older version of Greek, in Greece we use Modern Greek pronunciation, since this is how we know to speak. If you pronounced the letter "β" as "bayda" no Greek person will understand you, since we pronounce it "vita". But even for Koine Greek, this video is not accurate. The accent is very Americanized. The pronunciation of letters are also slightly off. For example, "β" in Modern Greek is "v", and in Classical Greek it was "b". So in Koine Greek, even by the time of Alexander the Great, it would have been something in between. The pronunciation used in this video is wrong for any variety of Greek ever.

U have to understand that modern greek has not changed much since koine greek. The massive difference is betweeen classic greek and koine greek, the language changed from Plato to Alexander in a much more dramatic fashion than it changed from Alexander to the modern era. The average greek understands at least 70% of the mass in the church, even if they are undecuated and were never taught ancient greek. And pronunciation is decided by the people that convey the language to the modern era, not by scholars. Greek language is not latin. It's not a dead language so it is unlikely that the pronunciation has changed very much or that it is possible that any scholar has better understanding of pronunciation than the people who actually speak it.

@@LNE78poi hey thanks for your insightful comment, I am learning Koine Greek and I cant find a good source to find out if I'd be able to read Plato, or if his variation of Greek is ancient Greek more distant from Koine, I haven't found a good source to find this out, thanks!

@@andreasm5770 thanks a lot for your thoughts on this, I've hear a lot of people online saying the alphabet in an "English" sounding version and claiming its Koine and justifying that that's why it doesn't sound like modern Greek, it is a bit of a lazy excuse to not put effort in learning things the right way. I mean, I still think it's amazing they are learning Greek, but they probably shouldn't teach it, since it makes it difficult for someone who wants to learn the correct pronunciation, do you find other aspects of this video (apart from pronunciation) accurate and useful, to learn Koine? Thanks, Ps: did you make a video on your channel? Id love to see that -Santi

"Hex," ?

Yes it is. The biblical greek is actually named as koine greek dialect. And it's the same in Septuagint.

Sort of . . .

So, in other words it is Hebraic Greek.

There was some differents but not so huge .. Is amazing if you think how many millions years passed.. Even modern greek have the same meaning with words of 3000 BC in Lynear b Alphabet

Just watched a greekpod 101 video with a native speaker - she trilled the letter p as well - and I trust that the native knows her own language! 🤣🤣🤣

How?

Biblical Greek was never pronounced this way, its pronounciation was like the Modern Greek. The liturgy in the Greek Orthodox Churches, which use biblical koine Greek, is not pronounced the way he's pronounciating it here.

@@chm5750 Yes! Biblical Greek was not pronounced identically to modern Greek, but definitely closer to modern Greek than Classical Greek and especially closer to modern Greek than this ridiculous fake americanized pronunciation.

@@andreasm5770Just to clarify, I said that Biblical (Koine) Greek is pronounced like Modern Greek, not like the pronounciation that he gives here. His pronounciation, I think is from the structured English pronounciation of Greek words, or Greek influenced Englush words. For example, the Γ γ (gamma) is pronounced as a "G g," instead of the soft correct "ye", therefore, gero instead of the correct yero. The same for Δ δ, the "D d" sound is used instead of the correct "th" sound like in "thine". Β β (beta) the correct pronounciation is Veeta, with the long sounding e, not beta. Being a Greek speaker I agree with you, trying to speak Greek with his English standard pronounciation, whether it's Biblical or Modern Greek, sounds horrendous.

@@chm5750 Yeah I agree with you. I'm Greek too 🇬🇷🇬🇷😂😂

Bill Mounce

Alexander Albano fabricated sham? 😤

@@christisking4581 yup, greek language, by Americans, for Americans.. not anywhere close to modern pronunciation

I believe this is for the biblical Greek only.

do not pronounce how this 100 year old idiot is saying it !!!

Κώστας Παπαδόπουλος but this is koine greek? It’s for New Testament studies, it is not meant for interacting with modern greeks.

It's not a lecture.

Yep, very familiar for me as an engineer

Something else like what?

That was rude. Since you are Greek, I won't make fun of the way you butchered the English language in your post. You have to understand, though, that Dr. Mounce is teaching people to read Koine Greek, Biblical Greek, not modern Greek. For modern Greek, there's always Rosetta Stone software. I don't know how much Greek has changed over the past two-thousand years, but surely it has changed somewhat. English has changed drastically over only a few centuries. Surely Greek hasn't been stagnant for two-thousand years, or has it? Would the Apostle Paul understand your speech? Would Thucydides? Would Homer?

@@brianmoore581 The way I butchered English after I study them from the age of 8 till the age of 14 and now I am 50, apparently it was not enough as you understood everything I said. Of course Greek has changed. No reason to argue on that. My objection is on an other level. 1st. I don't see any scholar giving lessons about Richard the Lionheart English, about Charlemagne French, about Ziegfrid's German, Peter's the Great Russian, or Colombus Spanish. Every English French German Spanish or Russian reads the ancient texts of their language with their modern pronunciation. And I stand here to assure you that you can perfectly read old Greek with 2019 pronunciation. 2nd. All the so called Erasmian pronunciations has a deep accent of the native language of the speaker himself. I have heard French-Greek English-Greek and German-Greek. Do they try to sound funny or ridicule our language ? I don't know. 3rd. Finally I really don't understand the reason for this effort. All these people have spend a good amount of their time driven by only love towards Greek language and they ended their huge effort not to be appreciated by the native Greeks themselves. Oh wait ! Maybe here is the hidden truth. Maybe they idealize the old Greeks so much, that they cannot accept modern Greeks are same people. After all is a blasphemy to say that Alexander ate mouzaka, Socrates took the poison with some ouzo, or Pericles ate pitta and souvlaki downtown Athens every night. Scholars are inginius persons. They dont teach anchient pronuntiations of other languages with such zeal, but Greek. And there must be a reason behind it. ΧΟΟΥΠ ΑΪ ΣΛΩΤΕΡ ΙΝΓΚΛΙΣ ΛΕΣΣ ΔΙΣ ΤΑΪΜ !

@@iggo45 the reason behind people's interest in Koine Greek is very simple: that happens to be the language the New Testament was written in. If it had been written in some other language they would be studying that. Lots of people also study ancient Hebrew, which is apparently different from modern Hebrew. I think you take yourself and your language too seriously. No one is ridiculing the Greek language. If the guy has an accent, so what? It doesn't offend me when foreigners try to speak English. I would take it as a compliment to my culture that they would care enough to try. There really is no one way to speak English, as there are many accents even among native speakers within the language. When a foreigner tries to learn your language, it shows that they see something of value in your culture. Take it as a compliment. And relax. It's not an insult to your present that people are interested in your past. By the way, some people do learn to speak Shakespearean English properly, or even older English, like that of Chaucer, or even Beowulf. People still study all sorts of things. I'm glad someone is doing that. I can only imagine that there are French and German scholars doing similar work in their own languages. I know a little French, a very little, and I am learning Tagalog. I know I butcher those languages far more than you do English. I don't know any Greek. I do have a great respect for the ancient Greeks, their art, their philosophy, their science, their history. Not only the Greeks, but I also am interested in the Romans. Really history in general is a subject of interest for me. I also happen to be a Christian who wants to know as much as possible about the way the Bible is translated from the original languages into English. Dr. Mounce is an expert in that field. He also seems like a really nice guy. I just don't like to see someone being rude to nice people.

You're being ignorant. He explained that it is not modern Greek pronunciation. He's teaching Koine. I seriously doubt you speak Koine yourself- unless you're planning on becoming a priest.

@@brianmoore581 Lets make it shorter this time. I invite you personally to come and visit us. I shall guide you to the first Church. Any Greek Church. In any city. There you will have the unique oportunity to listen the Liturgy in Κοινή Ελληνική. The original. The prototype. The authentic Gospel. 100% old, 100% ancient, 100% as it was written back in Antiquity. The Hierarchy haven't change anything, as it is their strong believe that if they do, the Gospels will be contaminated. They don't tolerate even to transcribe them in Modern Greek. Now after the Liturgy ends we shall go out and you will tell me if you heard any similarity from the pronunciation of the Priest and the so-called Erasmian artificial pronunciation. In case they sound the same, you will eat all the musaka the gyro the tzatziki the baklava you can take on my account ! If they don't I shall drive you, back to the Airport at once ! Deal ?

Erasmian pronunciation.