Biblical Languages

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”.

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