Sunday, July 31, 2005

Readingthenewtestament-inthegreekoriginals

While this may not be the most interesting blog ever, it certainly beats watching the films reviewed below.

I was recently looking at the way the early church read Greek, and discovered that not only were the NT works read aloud to a congregation, BUT also even when read privately, by benefactors, pastors etc. It was normal to read the texts aloud because the texts were written in continues script, without division even between words.

Tryspeedreadingthissentenceandyou
willsoonrealisethatyouhaveto
vocaliseittoyourselfwhetheraloud
orattheveryleastinternallyand
probablyinarathermonotonevoiceto.















(A Greek private letter from the 3rd century, Memphis, Egypt and something called VHP I 1 Fol XVIb, a folio of Zach 13:4-7)

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