Thank you, Dr. Zachariou. The last time I communicated with you, I was just a beginner in reading the Greek New Testament the Neohellenic way. With persistence, I can now read it as fast as I can read English. You have been an invaluable help to me. Because of what I have accomplished, a friend of mine has also been encouraged to do the same. So I sent him a link to your TH-cam video.Thank you and God bless you.
Your comments, my friend, are deeply appreciated. Thank you for sharing. Your experience of reaping the fruits of diligence and persistence will continue to encourage others, your friend being an example. You will find that the more you read, whether (semi-)silently or audibly, the more you develop an intimacy with the Greek language. Reading out aloud any part of the Greek New Testament with the historical Greek sounds preserved in Modern Greek (Neohellenic) makes you as intelligible to Greek-speaking people today as it would have made you intelligible to Greek-speaking people in Byzantine and New Testament times. Realizing this can have a profound impact on the ramifications of the significance of the right pronunciation of New Testament Greek. -PZ
I hope you will continue your very valuable videos on TH-cam. I am trying to view all of them and am encouraging those in our Bible study group who are interested in doing the same. God bless your work richly.
I will say that as I learn biblical Greek, I am attempting to learn with modern pronunciation. There is a lot of erasmian support and apps, would be great to have modern pronunciation in these apps. Appreciate your channel as it has been one place I regularly visit.
The problem is that if a native Greek-speaker is advocating the use of the Neohellenic / Modern Greek / Historical Greek Pronunciation for Koine Greek, Western academics will say, "Of course, you'd say that because you're Greek." I think we are progressing when an American such as Benjamin Kantor expresses the benefits of learning Modern Greek and using Modern Greek pronunciation for Koine. I think it's due to his influence that William Mounce writes on the cover of BK's book, "I may have to repent of my use of Erasmian pronunciation." It's worth listening to another American, Michael Halcomb. Watch: "I get schooled by a Greek linguist! (Dr. T. Michael W. Halcomb enters the Dojo!)" @DiscipleDojo 01:08:56 - How Western academia stole Greek from Greeks…and why you’re probably pronouncing it wrong! He explains how Western Academia stole Greek from the Greeks declared Greek as a dead language. This was a socio-political move. Academics drove a wedge between Ancient and Modern Greek which never existed before. Pronouncing Koine Greek in the Erasmian perpetuates this false historical dichotomy. Western academics had a low view Greeks and saw them as barbarians who corrupted their language. Back in the 19th century when Greeks were fighting for liberation against the yoke of Ottoman rule, German-speaker Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer wrote, "The race of the Hellenes has been wiped out in Europe. Physical beauty, intellectual brilliance, innate harmony and simplicity, art, competition, city, village, the splendour of column and temple - indeed, even the name has disappeared from the surface of the Greek continent.... Not the slightest drop of undiluted Hellenic blood flows in the veins of the Christian population of present-day Greece." Geschichte der Halbinsel Morea während des Mittelalters, 1830. Sadly, such a view has seeped into Western academia and still remains.
Very well said, Cedric, that the Greek language was stolen and misappropriated, as though the people living in Greece today have nothing to do with their language or history. In this regard, I see Kantor's work as a sign of progress toward the opposite direction. -PZ
Hello, please take the time to view my Greek pronunciation videos, as they were made with people like you in mind. Video #2, whether the original or the revised one, will prove particularly helpful. Thanks for your interest. -PZ
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Thank you, Dr. Zachariou. The last time I communicated with you, I was just a beginner in reading the Greek New Testament the Neohellenic way. With persistence, I can now read it as fast as I can read English. You have been an invaluable help to me. Because of what I have accomplished, a friend of mine has also been encouraged to do the same. So I sent him a link to your TH-cam video.Thank you and God bless you.
Your comments, my friend, are deeply appreciated. Thank you for sharing. Your experience of reaping the fruits of diligence and persistence will continue to encourage others, your friend being an example. You will find that the more you read, whether (semi-)silently or audibly, the more you develop an intimacy with the Greek language. Reading out aloud any part of the Greek New Testament with the historical Greek sounds preserved in Modern Greek (Neohellenic) makes you as intelligible to Greek-speaking people today as it would have made you intelligible to Greek-speaking people in Byzantine and New Testament times. Realizing this can have a profound impact on the ramifications of the significance of the right pronunciation of New Testament Greek. -PZ
I hope you will continue your very valuable videos on TH-cam. I am trying to view all of them and am encouraging those in our Bible study group who are interested in doing the same. God bless your work richly.
Thank you. That's the plan! -PZ
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Thanks for your work and these videos
Thank you, too, for your encouraging feedback. -PZ
I will say that as I learn biblical Greek, I am attempting to learn with modern pronunciation. There is a lot of erasmian support and apps, would be great to have modern pronunciation in these apps. Appreciate your channel as it has been one place I regularly visit.
I am with you, friend. You are doing the right thing. -PZ
The problem is that if a native Greek-speaker is advocating the use of the Neohellenic / Modern Greek / Historical Greek Pronunciation for Koine Greek, Western academics will say, "Of course, you'd say that because you're Greek." I think we are progressing when an American such as Benjamin Kantor expresses the benefits of learning Modern Greek and using Modern Greek pronunciation for Koine. I think it's due to his influence that William Mounce writes on the cover of BK's book, "I may have to repent of my use of Erasmian pronunciation."
It's worth listening to another American, Michael Halcomb. Watch:
"I get schooled by a Greek linguist! (Dr. T. Michael W. Halcomb enters the Dojo!)" @DiscipleDojo
01:08:56 - How Western academia stole Greek from Greeks…and why you’re probably pronouncing it wrong!
He explains how Western Academia stole Greek from the Greeks declared Greek as a dead language. This was a socio-political move. Academics drove a wedge between Ancient and Modern Greek which never existed before. Pronouncing Koine Greek in the Erasmian perpetuates this false historical dichotomy. Western academics had a low view Greeks and saw them as barbarians who corrupted their language.
Back in the 19th century when Greeks were fighting for liberation against the yoke of Ottoman rule, German-speaker Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer wrote, "The race of the Hellenes has been wiped out in Europe. Physical beauty, intellectual brilliance, innate harmony and simplicity, art, competition, city, village, the splendour of column and temple - indeed, even the name has disappeared from the surface of the Greek continent.... Not the slightest drop of undiluted Hellenic blood flows in the veins of the Christian population of present-day Greece." Geschichte der Halbinsel Morea während des Mittelalters, 1830. Sadly, such a view has seeped into Western academia and still remains.
Very well said, Cedric, that the Greek language was stolen and misappropriated, as though the people living in Greece today have nothing to do with their language or history. In this regard, I see Kantor's work as a sign of progress toward the opposite direction. -PZ
@@PhilemonZachariou can you teach me the Historical Pronunciation of Koine Greek rightly?
Hello, please take the time to view my Greek pronunciation videos, as they were made with people like you in mind. Video #2, whether the original or the revised one, will prove particularly helpful. Thanks for your interest. -PZ