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- January 2nd, 2012, 2:48 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: The terms, "Biblical Greek" and "NT Greek"
- Replies: 14
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Re: The terms, "Biblical Greek" and "NT Greek"
Hi again. If the focus is on language and texts written in that language then Koine or Hellenistic Greek would do and it wouldn't matter of the texts were Christian, Jewish, pagan or whatever, surely? It's basically the Greek language, literature and culture of the Hellenistic period, say 300BC to 3...
- January 1st, 2012, 11:49 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Kathy Mac...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1622
Re: Kathy Mac...
Hi Stephen, Happy to give you some thoughts and experiences - it may help me organise them more in my head to do so! But I am aware that my own background may be unusual compared to today's average Greek student. For example: (1) I was exposed to inflectional languages as a child through non-English...
- January 1st, 2012, 2:47 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: Hymns by Gregory Nazianzus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1652
Re: Hymns by Gregory Nazianzus
Hi, I do not think you will find any music or musical setting for Nazianzus' hymns and I doubt the meter would be 'classical'. A short intro on early Christian and Byzantine music is here . There are many examples of Byzantine music and chant on You Tube. It if funny you should mention Nazianzus' hy...
- December 31st, 2011, 1:01 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Kathy Mac...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1622
Kathy Mac...
Hello, and Happy New Year. I'm Kathy from Australia. I did a year of NT Greek many, many years ago, and retained enough to follow not-too-technical discussions to some degree, otherwise I never really used it. I recently retired and plan to use my new found freedom pursuing subjects that really inte...