Im so thankful for all of the work and effort Benjamin has put into this. This is definitely a standard reference work for the next generation of scholars.
@iberius99377 ай бұрын
Excellent talk. Mr. Kantor's work is awesome.
@josephthomas22266 ай бұрын
the problem is answering the questions WHERE and WHEN. Pronunciation not only varies over TIME but GEOGRAPHY. Even if we say "first century AD" we know that Palestine pronounced differently than Alexandria than Athens, and so on. It seems to me that there is no right answer, so we just have to pick one. How do we properly pronounce English? WHERE???? London, Leeds, Scotland, Boston, Atlanta, Auckland? Even within a country there are regional accents ("we know you were with him because you have a galilean accent." Pittsburgh and Philly sounds quite different from each other.) I am grateful for the amazing work that so many (like Kantor) have done. But at the end of the day, we're just making decisions that work for us, right? There can't be a "right" answer for what is "authentic."
@PatricksRareBooks9 ай бұрын
I find it amusing how many Greek teachers claim their pronunciation is Erasmian, yet they pronounce it differently from everyone else claiming theirs is the Erasmian pronunciation.
@HickoryDickory867 ай бұрын
In all fairness to those professors, Erasmian pronunciation originated as satire, and even Erasmus himself, its creator, did not use it.
@user-pj7sq7ce1f5 ай бұрын
Greeks you said who??? We greek orthodox almost 2000 years use in church koine greek in all our says hymns readings prays. Where we supposed change the way we said our language ?
@gdnewofc38263 ай бұрын
yes
@jenvasquez23048 ай бұрын
Why ειμι has a different meaning in the New Testament?
@iberius99377 ай бұрын
εῖμι means "I go". εἰμί means "I am".
@AnHebrewChild22 күн бұрын
@jenvasquez2304 - do you mean compared to modern Greek? In other words, different than what in particular?
@user-pj7sq7ce1f10 ай бұрын
Greeks never use Erasmus way for koine greek
@Thindorama5 ай бұрын
It's irrelevant what modern Greeks do, unless they are scholars with the relevant background.
@user-pj7sq7ce1f5 ай бұрын
@@Thindorama the issue is that greek in church in all the readings prays says hymns use koine greek of the NT almost 2000 years !!!so erasmians must say to us when we supposed change the way we say our own language ?