"Children's bible" greek

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tbrown3470
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"Children's bible" greek

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In English, we have many resources for growing in our English reading ability. Our kids read "kid versions" of everything from Homer to Twain. Various "children's bibles" have been popular for a long time. So I was thinking, what if we had Bible stories in simplified Koine Greek? My own greek is not up to the task without a lot of effort, but a community might be ale to make a lot of progress.

For example, I took an hour to run through Matthew 1:18-25 - an easy passage already - to see if I could smooth difficult grammar and change participles to simple verbs, etc. what do you think? I'm a little stuck in verse 18 on simplifying μνηστευθείσης. I thought of "ετοιμάζει γαμείν" or something but is that simpler? I left the rest of v18 for now.

18 ἡ γένεσις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ οὕτως ἦν. μνηστευθείσης τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Μαρίας τῷ Ἰωσήφ, πρὶν ἢ συνελθεῖν αὐτοὺς εὑρέθη ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου. 

19 Ἰωσὴφ δίκαιος ἦν καὶ θέλει λάθρᾳ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν. 

20 ταῦτα δὲ αὐτοῦ δοκει, ἄγγελος κυρίου κατʼ ὄναρ ἐφάνη αὐτῷ λέγων· Ἰωσὴφ υἱὸς Δαυίδ, μὴ φοβηθῇς παραλαβεῖν Μαρίαν τὴν γυναῖκά σου· τὸ γὰρ ἐν αὐτῇ γεννηθὲν ἐκ πνεύματός ἐστιν ἁγίου. 
21 τέξεται δὲ υἱόν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν· αὐτὸς γὰρ σώσει τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν.

22 τοῦτο δὲ ὅλον γέγονεν ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ κυρίου διὰ τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος·

23 ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει καὶ τέξεται υἱόν, καὶ καλέσουσιν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐμμανουήλ,

Ἐμμανουήλ ἐστιν, μεθʼ ἡμῶν ὁ θεός. 24 ἐγερθεὶ δὲ ὁ Ἰωσὴφ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕπνου.  ἐποίησεν ὡς προσέταξεν αὐτῷ ὁ ἄγγελος κυρίου.  παρέλαβεν τὴν Μαρίαν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ. 

25 καὶ όταν ὁ υἱόν γεννήθηκε ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν.
Mark Lightman
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Re: "Children's bible" greek

Post by Mark Lightman »

what if we had Bible stories in simplified Koine Greek?
χαιρε, φιλε!

τοιαυτα εν τουτωι τωι τοπωι εστιν και εσται.

http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-foru ... 28&t=22003

ερρωσο!

Μαρκος
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