This article examines the pronunciation that Benjamin Kantor, author of A Short Guide to the Pronunciation of New Testament Greek, recommends for New Testament Greek. His recommendation is a pronunciation system based on the way Greek was supposedly pronounced in the Judeo-Palestinian region during New Testament times. Kantor calls this pronunciation, “Historical Koine Greek Pronunciation”.
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I hate trying to talk while I’m in the dentist chair. It vexes me why anyone would ask me questions while drilling, scraping, or spraying my teeth. I hope they don’t expect anything more than an “uh-huh” or “huh-uh.” Recently, however, my dental hygienist asked me how long it takes me to prepare a sermon. …
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Suppose my house is in a remote area with no one in sight to call my neighbor. Or that my neighborhood is spread over a wide metropolitan area. Would one living two miles away from my house be less my neighbor than my next-door neighbor? Jesus commanded us, You shall love your neighbor as yourself …
In New Testament times a good number of Classical Greek words took on a new semantic dimension. One example is the word ἐκκλησία [eklisia] “church.” This article focuses on a revelation that begins to unfold with Jesus’ utterance of the word ἐκκλησία and which is later portrayed by Paul as “the Body of Christ.” Here …