Comments on: About ΑΓΑΠΗΣΕΙΣ http://agaphseis.wordpress.com ΑΓΑΠΗΣΕΙΣ is Greek for 'you will love'. This blog is devoted to the intersection of biblical exegesis, linguistics, and translation. It is offered as a spiritual discipline of the mind in order to love God and love others. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Matina Montes http://agaphseis.wordpress.com/about/#comment-251 Matina Montes Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:42:21 +0000 #comment-251 Thanks so much for your response. I will dig deeper into what these two gentlemen have to share about their findings. Love In Chirst, Matina Montes Thanks so much for your response. I will dig deeper into what these two gentlemen have to share about their findings.

Love In Chirst,
Matina Montes

]]> By: bzephyr http://agaphseis.wordpress.com/about/#comment-250 bzephyr Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:48:49 +0000 #comment-250 Matina, thank you for your kind comments. I pray that God continues to lift you up as you follow Jesus in humility and joy and that his Spirit gives you all wisdom for a life that grows in holiness and service to him and to others. Regarding Greek pronunciation, I would say that you as a modern Greek speaker are in a far better position with your own pronunciation than trying to fit in with the contrived Erasmian pronunciation that is usually used in most [American] seminaries. The Erasmian pronunciation sometimes has the supposed benefit of making every vowel and diphthong have a different pronunciation, but following that pronunciation can only be a hindrance when compared with the extreme benefit of being able to grow in knowledge of the language with real live speakers and with understanding exegetical issues related to pronunciation/spelling mistakes. There is a stream of recent good scholarship that argues that modern Greek pronunciation follows a trajectory from Koine Greek such that modern pronunciation is much closer to Koine pronunciation than previously assumed. This is a specialty of <a href="http://www.lsn.se/2509/" rel="nofollow">Professor Chrys Caragounis</a>, and also Randall Buth at the <a href="http://www.biblicalulpan.org/" rel="nofollow">Biblical Language Center</a>. Hope that's helpful. Matina, thank you for your kind comments. I pray that God continues to lift you up as you follow Jesus in humility and joy and that his Spirit gives you all wisdom for a life that grows in holiness and service to him and to others.

Regarding Greek pronunciation, I would say that you as a modern Greek speaker are in a far better position with your own pronunciation than trying to fit in with the contrived Erasmian pronunciation that is usually used in most [American] seminaries. The Erasmian pronunciation sometimes has the supposed benefit of making every vowel and diphthong have a different pronunciation, but following that pronunciation can only be a hindrance when compared with the extreme benefit of being able to grow in knowledge of the language with real live speakers and with understanding exegetical issues related to pronunciation/spelling mistakes.

There is a stream of recent good scholarship that argues that modern Greek pronunciation follows a trajectory from Koine Greek such that modern pronunciation is much closer to Koine pronunciation than previously assumed. This is a specialty of Professor Chrys Caragounis, and also Randall Buth at the Biblical Language Center. Hope that’s helpful.

]]> By: Matina Montes http://agaphseis.wordpress.com/about/#comment-246 Matina Montes Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:46:45 +0000 #comment-246 I found you by Googling Memorial Offering. I appreciated your insight and it helped me understand God's nature and love...again. I love the story of Cornelius as well. A man with pure motives and no religious agenda...open to the Gospel message. I have to guard my heart from being like Peter and missing people open to the message because of self-righteousness and pride. The longer I live as a disciple of Jesus the more I have to come before God and be reminded who got me this far and to begin with. In my core nature I am still a sinner. Every encounter I have with a new person I want to graciously share the gospel message and my life without preconceived notions or judgement. I have a question about the Greek and pronunciation. I have Greek ancestry and learned to speak, read and write modern Greek. Recently I sat through a class on Koine (sp?) Greek. Pronunciations confused me...the coupled vowels dipthongs are what through me off. Do you have a suggested reference or text book I can go to to more deeply understand Koine pronunciation and language? Thanks for devoting your life to this purpose. Matina Montes I found you by Googling Memorial Offering. I appreciated your insight and it helped me understand God’s nature and love…again.
I love the story of Cornelius as well. A man with pure motives and no religious agenda…open to the Gospel message. I have to guard my heart from being like Peter and missing people open to the message because of self-righteousness and pride. The longer I live as a disciple of Jesus the more I have to come before God and be reminded who got me this far and to begin with. In my core nature I am still a sinner. Every encounter I have with a new person I want to graciously share the gospel message and my life without preconceived notions or judgement.
I have a question about the Greek and pronunciation.
I have Greek ancestry and learned to speak, read and write modern Greek. Recently I sat through a class on Koine (sp?) Greek. Pronunciations confused me…the coupled vowels dipthongs are what through me off. Do you have a suggested reference or text book I can go to to more deeply understand Koine pronunciation and language?
Thanks for devoting your life to this purpose.
Matina Montes

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]]> By: bzephyr http://agaphseis.wordpress.com/about/#comment-89 bzephyr Thu, 29 May 2008 10:36:33 +0000 #comment-89 Hey Anthony, thanks for bringing that up so I could fix it. Hey Anthony, thanks for bringing that up so I could fix it.

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