Matt 5:38-48

[jeidsath]

Eugene DeVries has a great reading of Matthew 5:38-48 in a recovered Koine pronunciation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYk7IZPBvU

I've posted a video response:

http://youtu.be/TG6RwlYTtMU

Post some comments to his video! I think that either encouragement in Greek or English would be worthwhile. It's really good, and he should be making more videos.

[Markos]

I agree, it is very good. He is not just reading an Ancient Greek text, but he is acting it out. Having clearly internalized the text himself, he allows us to internalize it better than if he were just reading it straight. You can compare it to the straight reading he did of Luke a year ago. And the input is more comprehensible because of the movements and visual aids.

I did a quick video response myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO7MDNf ... e=youtu.be

[Isaac Newton]

Eugene DeVries has a great reading of Matthew 5:38-48 in a recovered Koine pronunciation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYk7IZPBvU

I've posted a video response:

http://youtu.be/TG6RwlYTtMU

Post some comments to his video! I think that either encouragement in Greek or English would be worthwhile. It's really good, and he should be making more videos.

I hate to say this but IMHO it's rather poor. Here's a good reading, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nwmwi01AWg

[jeidsath]

Isaac,

That's a Modern Greek pronunciation. I like it. My favorite Modern Greek reader is Dr. Spiros Zodhiates. I heartily recommend purchasing his audio CD.

However, I support and use a recovered pronunciation:

1) There are too many vowel collisions Modern Greek. It becomes impossible to spell and too many different words sound the same.
2) Poetry does not scan in a Modern Greek pronunciation, as modern Greek has lost both tonal quality and vowel length.

However, I believe that John Stuart Blackie was a great proponent of using the modern pronunciation. As was Heinrich Schiemann. Both believed that it makes learning Greek far easier.

Regardless, as technology makes audio/visual language learning easier, I think that recovered pronunciations of Greek will really take off. Check back and see where we're at in a couple of years!

[Markos]

I hate to say this but IMHO it's rather poor. Here's a good reading, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nwmwi01AWg

You are comparing apples and oranges. As far as straight readings of texts go, the one you reference is very good. And straight readings of texts do have a role in learning Greek.

But Eugene is doing something rather different. His reading is comprehensible to beginners in way that the other one is not.

[jeidsath]

Another video reply from me: http://youtu.be/8Gfq7yGvPig