Pronunciation of New Testament Greek with Ben Kantor

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Ben Kantor has recently published two books on the pronunciation of NT Greek with Eerdmans:
⁠A Short Guide to the Pronunciation of New Testament Greek⁠⁠: a.co/d/gfQnP7c
The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam⁠: a.co/d/3oAMpI5
In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, host Kevin Grasso interviews Ben on his new books. They discuss how we can know what NT Greek sounded like, different pronunciation systems in use in the first century, the importance of pronunciation, and what languages Jesus and other Jews most likely spoke in first century Palestine.
Benjamin Paul Kantor is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He received his B.A. in Classical Studies with an emphasis in Greek from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012. Subsequently, he received his Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from the University of Texas in 2017. He specializes in the historical phonology of Greek and Hebrew and has particular interest in ancient Greek and Hebrew pedagogy. In addition to his research work, he also runs a website, ⁠KoineGreek.com⁠, which focuses on providing “living language” resources for students and scholars of ancient Greek.
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Комментарии : 14

@jasonbaker2370 7 месяцев назад

Very much enjoyed this! Ben is such a blessing. So is Biblingo!

@IosefDzhugashvili 11 месяцев назад

Great questions and great answers!! Loved this interview.

@shawnbrewer7 4 месяца назад

Being Eastern Orthodox, I often find myself in the company of native Greeks. Every Greek acquaintance of mine consistently recommends mastering modern Greek pronunciation first and then incorporating Biblical rules. This approach ensures that your Greek proficiency will be practically beneficial when engaging with Greek media or visiting Greece.

@PaleoalexPicturesLtd 3 месяца назад

I agree that exposure to and knowledge of modern Greek pronuncuation is beneficial, but Modern Greek pronunciation would make Ancient Greek unpractical for communicative purposes. I personally try to emulate certain features of MG pronunciation in my own Polis pronunciation (apical sigma, fricative khi)

@tm2bow653 6 дней назад

The only place where ancient Greek texts have been read continuously since the late antiquity are the eastern churches. That's why I think we should take into account the pronunciation used in Greek churches even if some changes have been made.

@brianponikvar9927 11 месяцев назад

Love Luke Ranieri. He's got some fun videos to geek out on. 🤓

@Philoglossos Месяц назад

Stress accent doesn't necessarily involve a lengthened syllable. European Spanish, for instance, has a stress accent but stressed and unstressed syllables are generally the same length. The difference between a pitch accent and a stress accent is rather that the pitch contour of a word can't be overridden by sentence level intonation. That is, in a stress accent language, while the stressed syllable might be differentiated by pitch from other syllables, it doesn't always have to be higher in pitch - if for instance you add a question intonation to a word with initial stress, the pitch will still rise across the word, meaning that the stressed syllable might be lower pitched than unstressed syllables. Meanwhile, in, say, Japanese, there is always a pitch downstep after the accent - any question intonation has to follow that downstep, it can't override it.

@PaleoalexPicturesLtd 3 месяца назад

I study in Polis, and no one pays attention to vowel length outside of the subjonctive.

@hebrewgreek7420 11 месяцев назад

I’m not sure why someone would want to model their speech after non-native speakers, though (re the discussion of phonological length in a higher-register reconstruction).

@iberius9937 5 месяцев назад

Completely understandable question. I myself feel Modern pronunciation is more advantageous (but still not without its drawbacks) and that one should derive one's oral posture and pronunciation of the sigma and other specific consonants from Modern native speakers before learning about and tackling more historical pronunciation, be it Classical, Hellenistic or Imperial Koine.

@hmldjr 4 месяца назад

you're losing - give it up

@annesmith9070 4 месяца назад

There are no native speakers of ancient Greek. The idea is to model your ancient Greek according to how native speakers of ancient Greek pronounced it, in order to better understand what they were communicating in their language. That said, as soon as I started to investigate how to pronounce the Greek of 500 BC I also made sure to listen to modern Greek speakers to get a feel for the underlying allophones. So no, I don’t want to pronounce every classical attic diphthong as a iota, but yes I’d like to pronounce iota like a modern Greek native.

@brycerogers5050 3 месяца назад

I wonder if Paul's speech being "of no account" implies not just a lack of flashy bodily presence, but also a "commoning" of his language for the listeners. He became all things to all men. It's hard to think a majority of the texts wouldn't be communicated colloquially ("not many of you were wise...").