Review and Analysis of Greek New Testament Audio Recordings (rated)

This page is still being created and is still partial in its information. Some ratings may only be based on hearing several passages and may not be representative of all recordings.

If anyone knows of any other free or for-purchase recordings of the Greek New Testament, please send in an email, and I will add it to the list. See below for more details on what to submit.

So you want to include listening to some Greek into your studies. Great! The more avenues you can add to learning Greek, the better. So what is the best audio recording of the New Testament? Are they mostly the same? Are they free? Which is best for you? It depends on several things: (1) what Greek text/version of the NT you are reading and more important, (2) how do you want to pronounce Greek and how SHOULD you pronounce Koine Greek.

There are several different systems of pronunciation that are used in classrooms, and consequently, there are recordings of the GNT using the different systems. For a good overview on the different pronunciation systems, see the BiblicalGreek.org web page "Guide to Greek Pronunciation Conventions". 1) The artificial Erasmian (> Erasmus) system is the most popular and is widely taught in academia. There are even dialects of Erasmian.  Two other pronunciation systems are in vogue for the New Testament, 2) Modern Greek pronunciation and 3) a restored historically correct "Imperial Koine" as pronounced in the Roman empire during the period from 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. (The restored Attic pronunciation scheme is not listed here.)

Since biblical Greek is a reconstructed language (i.e. we have no living native speaker), the pronunciation of the various modern speakers/authors is often inconsistent in regard to accents and pronunciation of certain vowels. Also, some authors/speakers use their own 'special pronunciation'. Unfortunately, most recordings are incorrect especially in regard to the placement of accent.

The various recordings have been analyzed for a number of elements in regard to both pronunciation and presentation. A description of the rating elements can be found below. The world is still looking for the next Koine James Earl Jones - any volunteers?

 

Available New Testament Audio Files

  1. Marilyn Phemister* (Westcott-Hort)
  2. David Field (1904 BFBS -British Foreign Bible Society- edition)
  3. John Simon* (Westcott-Hort)
  4. Spiros Zodhiates* (Nestle/Aland 26)
  5. Jonathan Pennington (UBS - United Bible Society - 4th Edition)
  6. Randall Buth (Westcott-Hort)
  7. Louis Tyler (Robinson-Pierpoint Majority Text*, Westcott-Hort*, Scrivener's Textus Receptus)
  8. Maurice Robinson (Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform)
  9. Gleason Archer (UBS - United Bible Society - 4th Edition)
  10. John Schwandt* (Nestle-Aland 27)
  11. Pella (on LibriVox (Stephanus; Patriarchal Edition of 1904)
  12. Vasilios Vellas 1967 Vellas Edition (Modern Greek)
  13. Louis Sorenson (yours truly :>) Rahlfs;Westcott-Hort) in Living Koine
  14. Vasile Stancu (USB 3/4 or Nestle-Aland 26/27)

*Entire Greek New Testament

 

Rating Elements

Description

Presentation

Pronunciation

Content

?= this author is unsure or has not verified the item in question

 

Marilyn Phemister

Presentation

  • Gender: Female
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed: medium
  • *Phrasing - poor
  • *Inflection - monotone
  • *Punctuation pauses: yes
  • *Flow: stilted
  • *Voice tones: harsh
  • *Enunciation: clear - each word is clear and distinct
  • *Recording Quality: excellent
  • *Ease to follow: Each mp3 is of a separate chapter. Book name and chapter number are spoken in English at beginning of each mp3 file.

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Erasmian
  • *Vowel Consistency: ?
  • *Consonant Consistency: ?
  • *Accents correct: ?
  • *Idiosyncrasies: ?

Content

  • Greek Text: Westcott-Hort
  • New Testament: Entire New Testament
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): none
  • Other Religious texts: none
  • Secular texts:none
  • Other texts:none

Reviews:

The Greek is a little stilted and tones sometimes harsh to listen to (imoho); regardless, some still like the clarity of these recordings. Marylin made these recordings for herself in case her eyesight failed. This (as far as I can tell) was the first complete audio recording of the Greek NT Testament. All owe a debt of gratitude and thanks to her for leading the way. Since her recordings were made, many more have come online either as free or for-purchase.

Note: I believe this was the first widely available audio of the GNT on the web. It was originally hosted on the CCEL website and is now available on InternetArchive.org and Kovac.cc.

 

David Field

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: British
  • *Speed: medium
  • *Phrasing - excellent
  • *Inflection - good, reads with meaning
  • *Punctuation pauses: yes
  • *Flow: smooth
  • *Voice tones: pleasant, full bodied and clear
  • *Enunciation: excellent
  • *Recording Quality: excellent
  • *Ease to follow (audio markers given to help the reader follow along with the printed text): ?

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Erasmian
  • *Vowel Consistency: inconsistent
  • *Consonant Consistency: inconsistent
  • *Accents correct: most times
  • *Idiosyncrasies: pronounces eta as ae

Content

  • Greek Text: 1904 BFBS (British Foreign Bible Society) edition
  • New Testament: Matthew, Mark, more coming
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): none
  • Other Religious texts: none
  • Secular texts:none
  • Other texts:none

Reviews

None

 

John Simon

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed: quick
  • *Phrasing - excellent
  • *Inflection - good - the meaning comes through
  • *Punctuation pauses: correct
  • *Flow: excellent
  • *Voice tones: smooth
  • *Enunciation: clear and fast
  • *Recording Quality: excellent
  • *Ease to follow (audio markers given to help the reader follow along with the printed text): ?

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Modern, but modified to more correctly imitate 1st century pronunciation.
  • *Vowel Consistency: ?
  • *Consonant Consistency: ?
  • *Accents correct: ?
  • *Idiosyncrasies: Not exactly similar to Modern Greek pronunciation, although modern Greek pronunciation is the starting point of J. Simon's consistent, methodological and peculiar pronunciation scheme. J. Simon has purposefully modified some of the modern pronunciations with the intent of creating a system that he perceives is more closely aligned with the spoken Greek of the New Testament world.

Content

  • Greek Text: Westcott-Hort
  • New Testament: Entire New Testament (recorded from 1999-2008)
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): none
  • Other Religious texts: none
  • Secular texts:none
  • Other texts:none

Reviews

Spiros Zodhiates

Presentation

  • Gender: Male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: Greek (Cyprian), American
  • *Speed: medium slow (each word separate)
  • *Phrasing - excellent
  • *Inflection - good
  • *Punctuation pauses: correct
  • *Flow - ok, (the slower speed affects the smoothness)
  • *Voice tones: older male voice, light, clear
  • *Enunciation: good
  • *Recording Quality: good (some background noise)
  • *Ease to follow (audio markers given to help the reader follow along with the printed text): ?

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Modern Greek
  • *Vowel Consistency: consistent
  • *Consonant Consistency: consistent
  • *Accents correct: always
  • *Idiosyncrasies: none

Content

  • Greek Text: Nestle/Aland 26
  • New Testament: Entire New Testament
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): none
  • Other Religious texts: none
  • Secular texts:none
  • Other texts:none

Reviews

None

 

Jonathan Pennington

Presentation

  • Gender: male, 40's
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed: medium slow
  • *Phrasing - excellent
  • *Inflection - good
  • *Punctuation pauses: correct
  • *Flow - ok
  • Voice tones: medium bodied, clear
  • *Enunciation: good
  • *Recording Quality: excellent
  • *Ease to follow (audio markers given to help the reader follow along with the printed text): ?

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Erasmian
  • *Vowel Consistency: sometimes inconsistent
  • *Consonant Consistency: consistent
  • *Accents correct: not always
  • *Idiosyncrasies: none

Content

  • Greek Text: UBS4
  • New Testament: 1st John, Sermon on the Mount, all passages in Mounce's Graded Reader
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): none
  • Other Religious texts: none
  • Secular texts:none
  • Other texts:none

Reviews

None

 

Randall Buth

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: US-English, multilingual
  • *Speed: quick and lively (conversational)
  • *Phrasing - excellent
  • *Inflection - varied
  • Dramatization: where appropriate (e.g. John 11, 19, 20, 21) to simulate distance or distress.
  • *Punctuation pauses: yes
  • *Flow: excellent
  • *Voice tones: medium bodied
  • *Enunciation: clear
  • *Recording Quality: excellent
  • *Ease to follow: Chapter headings are read aloud.

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Living Koine (restored 200 B.C. - 200 A.D.) - also called "Restored Koine" or "Imperial Koine." See Appendix Gamma: Koine Pronunciation.
  • *Vowel Consistency: excellent
  • *Consonant Consistency: excellent
  • *Accents correct: always
  • *Idiosyncrasies: none

Content

  • Greek NT Text: Westcott-Hort (James from Alexandrian Consensus Texts=UBS4)
  • Included New Testament Texts : Paul's speech on Mar's Hill (Acts 17:16-34), James,
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): Some
  • Other Religious texts: Didache
  • Secular texts: Epictetus two dialogues Against the Academics and On Familial Love, the Song of Seikilos.
  • Other texts: some Josephus,
  • ASKHSEIS 'drills' are available for some of the materials like James, 1 John, Epictetus, and Acts 17. These are recordings that have been broken into phrases and clauses with spaces for repetition or thinking.

*The introductory grammar called "Lining Koiné Greek" by Dr. Buth contains several selections in Part 2a and Part 2b. (The entire grammar contains over 15 hours of audio). Some Aesop, LXX, Didache, and Josephus are recorded for the sxolé students. Content is continually being added to the passages listed above.

Reviews

This is my favorite of all recordings of the New Testament in Greek. Buth reads with meaning and emotion. While his voice is not as deep-bodied as a James Earl-Jones, his pronunciation is clear and easy to follow. He took a great deal of time ensuring accents are correct. The pronunciation is similar to modern Greek, with the exception of a couple of vowels and diphthongs. John is very enjoyable.

 

Louis Tyler

3 Different Texts: Westcott-Hort, Robinson-Pierpont (Byzantine Majority Text) and Scrivener's Textus Receptus

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed:
  • *Phrasing -
  • *Inflection -
  • Dramatization:
  • *Punctuation pauses:
  • *Flow:
  • *Voice tones:
  • *Enunciation:
  • *Recording Quality:
  • *Ease to follow: ?

Pronunciation

  • *System followed:
  • *Vowel Consistency:
  • *Consonant Consistency:
  • *Accents correct:
  • *Idiosyncrasies:

Content

  • Greek NT Text:
    1. F. H. A. Scrivener's 1894 and 1902 edition of the Textus Receptus
    2. Westcott-Hort
    3. Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Majority Text
  • New Testament: Robinson-Pierpont (Entire NT); Westcott-Hort (Entire NT); Textus Receptus (Matthew-Mark in progress 2009-2011?)
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha):
  • Other Religious texts:
  • Secular texts:
  • Other texts:
  • Note: Louis Tyler and Maurice Robinson are the only recordings I am aware of the Byzantine Majority text. Tyler's is the only audio of the Textus Receptus. The Textus Receptus (September 2009) is in the early stages of a several year project (Matthew-Mark currently exist).

Reviews

None

 

 Maurice Robinson

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed: slow and easy
  • *Phrasing - Breaks occur between clauses. Prepositions phrased together with their objects. Articles read together with their noun groups.
  • *Inflection - Ok, the slowness of the reading makes inflexion harder.
  • Dramatization: no
  • *Punctuation pauses: always
  • *Flow: Methodical - The listener never feels rushed.
  • *Voice tones: medium-warm.
  • *Enunciation: Excellent - one of the best
  • *Recording Quality: Clear, no background noses or static, but one can hear pages turn.
  • *Ease to follow: spoken chapter flag. (only based on 1 book).

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: American Erasmian
  • *Vowel Consistency: always
  • *Consonant Consistency: always
  • *Accents correct: 95%. The stress accent on some words does not always match the accent mark.
  • *Idiosyncrasies: none

Content

  • Greek NT Text: Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Majority Text of which he is the editor. The Robinson/Pierpont Byzantine text can be downloaded from http://www.bingo-ev.de/~ps2866/Byz/RP_2005.pdf )
  • Included New Testament Texts: Entire New Testament
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha):
  • Other Religious texts:
  • Secular texts:
  • Other texts:

Reviews:

None

 Gleason Archer

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed: medium-fast / conversational
  • *Phrasing - Very good.
  • *Inflection - Yes - more than most others
  • Dramatization: Mild
  • *Punctuation pauses: Always
  • *Flow: A little stilted, occasional unexpected pauses (to take a breath?)
  • *Voice tones: Clear, light (the voice of an older man)
  • *Enunciation: Clear, some vowels occasionally cloudy
  • *Recording Quality: Recorded on tape, not digitally(?). Some editing errors
  • Accuracy to text: Occasional misreads and omissions: e.g. Mt 5:26 omitted ἤμην λέγω ὑμῖν; Mt 5:46 ἔ[ρ]χετε instead of ἔχετε κτλ.
  • *Ease to follow: Chapter headings clearly flag a new chapter

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Academic US-Erasmian. β = [b], γ = [g], δ = [d] (hard); θ=[θ], φ = [f]; χ = [x] soft.
  • *Vowel Consistency: Almost always. Some vowels are cloudy.
  • *Consonant Consistency: Always
  • *Accents correct: Most of the time.
  • *Idiosyncrasies:

Content

  • Greek NT Text: UBS 4th Edition
  • Included New Testament Texts: 6 different books of the New Testament only (still trying to find out which ones) Matthew, John, Romans
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): no
  • Other Religious texts: no
  • Secular texts: no
  • Other texts: no

Reviews

  • Archer's voice is warm and full-bodied.

  • "One of the very best tools for learning Greek is Dr. Gleason Archer's Greek Master by Heaven Word. I have spent many happy hours listening to his rendition of Matthew, John, and Romans. Listening, I have found, is the best way to learn any language. His pronunciation is exactly like mine, except that I trill my Rhos, and deaspirate my stops. His oral rendering of the Greek accents is precise. He carefully connects the proclitics and enclitics with the words to which they are to be pronounced. I developed my system of pronunciation years before listening to Dr. Archer's, but it is very gratifying to learn that a highly respected Greek scholar has adopted for his personal reading of the Greek text a nearly identical method"  (Don Potter)
  • In general, it’s a fairly good read, but not my cup of tea. The pace is good, but a little jerky. It is easier to clean up mistakes with digital equipment rather than tape, but mistakes can get in everywhere and anywhere for everyone. RB

 

 John Schwandt: Greek Audio Bible (Logos Software)

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed: moderate
  • *Phrasing - good
  • *Inflection - somewhat monotone
  • Dramatization: none
  • *Punctuation pauses: yes
  • *Flow: ok, a little stilted possibly due to software (the ends of the words seem abrupt)
  • *Voice tones: light, warm-bodied
  • *Enunciation: clear
  • *Recording Quality: excellent
  • *Ease to follow: Very (Logos has software which points to the word in the running text as the audio is being spoken).

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Erasmian, but with hints of some modern vowel sounds (I will update this critique).
  • *Vowel Consistency: always
  • *Consonant Consistency: always
  • *Accents correct: always
  • *Idiosyncrasies: Occasionally χ will sound link [χ], υ like [y]. As with every large recording, individual vowels in certain words have different shades of color. Schwandt is very consistent throughout.

Content

  • Greek NT Text: Nestle-Aland 27th Edition (=UBS4 text)
  • Included New Testament Texts: Entire New Testament
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): None
  • Other Religious texts: None
  • Secular texts: None
  • Other texts:None

Reviews

This is the only audio in Erasmian pronunciation for the complete Nestle-Aland 26/27 and UBS3/4 NT texts. (Most likely this is because of the fact that no one wants to invest any time into recording a text which the German Bible Society would attempt to regulate). It does not exist outside of the Logos software as a stand-alone product. To listen to this on an mp3 player or iPod, one would have to rip the audio from their computer.

After listening to about 25 minutes of the audio (thanks to Logos for providing the demo), I find Schwandt's reading rather stiff and not semantically endowed - i.e. imoho, he does not read the passages I have heard with a lot of inflexion or emphasis in regard to meaning - to me it seems rather sterile. He uses inflexion, but the sentences are often monotone throughout.

Part of the issue with Schwandt's stiltedness may be due to the software and the pointer interaction causing audio delays. The pointer which moves above the text is 1/2 second behind, causing the eyes to trail the sound rather than lead to the next sound.

Schwandt's pronunciation is very consistent (there are occasional vowel misreads έ = η (e.g. Heb. 4.1. ὑστερηκέναι.) and occasional vowel colorings of ὑ = [i]. But His accents are always correct. Overall, it is a good recording for to accompany those reading a text online. The pointer which points to the word as it is read will be helpful to many.

Logos should change two elements to make this audio more valuable. When reading foreign texts, it takes the mind a half-second to read the word. Currently, the pointer lags behind the audio by a 1/4 second. That means the next word is being read while the pointer is still on the previous word. It would also be great to be able to slow down the audio to whatever pace a reader would feel comfortable. (LLS)

 

Pella

  • Author - Pella
  • Speaker Name: Pella
  • Organization - LibriVox Contributor
  • Sample/Demo - http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ez/kd01_matthaiou_01_pe.mp3
  • Format: mp3
  • Availability/Internet: Free download from LibriVox Catalogue Name: PeaceUntoYou
  • Internet Links: http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=2754
  • ISBN 10 & ISBN 13

    Presentation

  • Gender: Female
  • Native Accent of Speaker: Native speaker of Modern Greece
  • *Speed: medium
  • *Phrasing - does the speaker keep together words and phrases which belong together, or are there unnatural pauses and word associations: exellent
  • *Inflection - monotone, varied, (especially in dialogue)
  • *Punctuation pauses: Always
  • *Flow: easy, not rushed
  • *Voice tones: clear, light, sing-songy
  • *Enunciation: clear
  • *Recording Quality: excellent
  • *Ease to follow: audio markers given to help the reader follow along with the printed text: Chapter title read at beginning of chapter

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Modern Greek
  • *Vowel Consistency: Always (a native speaker)
  • *Consonant Consistency: Always
  • *Accents correct:
  • *Idiosyncrasies:

Content

  • Greek Text: Stephanus 1550 (James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, Matthew 1-8) Patriarchal Edition of 1904 (Greek Orthodox text) (Matthew 1-28)
  • New Testament Texts: Matthew (2 versions); James; 1,2 Peter
  • Septuagint texts:
  • Other Religious texts:
  • Secular writings:
  • Other writings:

Vasilios Vellas

  • Author - Vasilios Vellas
  • Speaker Name: Vasilios Vellas (?)
  • Organization - FaithComesByHearing.com
  • Sample/Demo -
  • Format: mp3
  • Availability/Internet: Free download from faithcomesbyhearing.com; Can purchase CD-rom
  • Internet Links: http://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/store/languageconfig (Select Greek for the Language)
  • ISBN 10 & ISBN 13

    Presentation

  • Gender: Male (mid-aged)
  • Native Accent of Speaker: Native speaker of Modern Greece
  • *Speed: fast (slows down after the geneologies)
  • *Phrasing - does the speaker keep together words and phrases which belong together, or are there unnatural pauses and word associations: exellent
  • *Inflection - a little monotone
  • *Punctuation pauses: Always
  • *Flow: quick, with breaks where needed
  • *Voice tones: a little cloudy, darker and full bodied
  • *Enunciation: clear
  • *Recording Quality: good
  • *Ease to follow: Chapter title read at beginning of chapter

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Modern Greek
  • *Vowel Consistency: Always (a native speaker)
  • *Consonant Consistency: Always
  • *Accents correct: Always
  • *Idiosyncrasies:

Content

  • Greek Text: 1967 Vellas (a version of Katharevousa - modern restored Attic (?)) not the same as the 1850 Vambas (Bambas) edition. The 1967 Vellas text is hard to find.
  • New Testament Texts: Entire New Testament
  • Septuagint texts:
  • Other Religious texts:
  • Secular writings:
  • Other writings:

Review:

 Here is what I got: I am listening to the Vellas' Audio Greek NT as I write; 
Vellas' text seems to be his own slight revision of the Byzantine Greek 
Orthodox texts in vogue; he uses the movable nu, or should we coin it 
removable nu, in the verbs, as in εγεννησε(ν) EGENNHSE(N), he inserts the 
article before each personal name, and so forth; his reading slows down 
after the geneaology;  he is the only reader throughout; I use to follow him 
with the two Orthodox editions that I have, one the older version, the other 
the new; his reading is more consistent with the older; the tape set 
consists of 18 cassettes, with the Greek titles and books written on one 
side and the English on the the reverse; "The New Testament,  Translation by 
V. Vellas © United Bible Societies 1967 Distributed by Greek Archdiocese of 
North and South America.  The internet did not help much; Google register 
the "Greek Modern Revised New Testament", Athenai (Athens) 1967...

Michael J Miles

 

Louis Sorenson

Presentation

  • Gender: male
  • Age of Speaker: 50
  • Native Accent of Speaker: American
  • *Speed: moderate
  • *Phrasing - excellent
  • *Inflection - varied tones and warmth; emotions, questions, etc. highlighted
  • Dramatization: where appropriate
  • *Punctuation pauses: yes
  • Flow: good, smooth
  • *Voice tones: light, warm-bodied
  • *Enunciation: clear, some vowel cloudiness
  • *Recording Quality: some background noise; some editing inserts which are noticeable.
  • *Ease to follow: Chapter book name and chapter read (in Greek) at beginning of each mp3. Each mp3 is a chapter. Starting with Mark 7, the Kefalia (Titles) of the UBS4 or Alands Synopsis are included at the start of each section, along with a soft beep. The Greek sections are also available as separate downloads instead of a single mp3 for the entire chapter.

 

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: Living Koine = Imperial Koine
  • *Vowel Consistency: οι υ as [y] or [i], otherwise consistent
  • *Consonant Consistency: occasional hard [b], [g] [d] for soft; occasional mild aspiration of τ κ π.
  • *Accents correct: 99%
  • *Idiosyncrasies: Sometimes a midwestern/Norwegian drawl can be noted "Don't cha knauw".

Content

  • Greek NT Text: Westcott-Hort (1881)
  • Septuagint Text: Rahlfs (1935)
  • Included New Testament Texts: Gospel of Mark (in process)
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): Some Favorite Psalms: 1, 8, 18(19), 21(22), 22(23), 23(24), 26(27), 31(32), 33(34), 50(51).
  • Other Religious texts: None
  • Secular texts: Epictetus' Enchiridion (in process)
  • Other texts:Boyce's "Let's Read Greek Stories"

Vasile Stancu

Presentation

  • Gender: Male (mid-aged)
  • Native Accent of Speaker: Native speaker of Romania
  • *Speed: slow conversational (also has a very slow-speed learning audio)
  • *Phrasing - does the speaker keep together words and phrases which belong together, or are there unnatural pauses and word associations: exellent
  • *Inflection - wonderful, one of the best
  • *Punctuation pauses: Always
  • *Flow: quick, with breaks where needed
  • *Voice tones: One of the most interesting, full-bodied and dark, a little gutteral at times (intentionally so)
  • *Enunciation: clear
  • *Recording Quality: good
  • *Ease to follow: Two formats provided. One with a daily reading of several verses. The other as a single file for all of 1 John - chapter headers read in Greek?English? Some of the embedded pdf audio files don't always link correctly.

Pronunciation

  • *System followed: A form of Erasmian with some non-Erasmian sounds. The author explains his pronunciation system in a pdf file. An explanation of the author's view of the pitch accent in ancient Greek (pdf)
  • *Vowel Consistency: very consistent.
  • *Consonant Consistency: always
  • *Accents correct: always.
  • *Idiosyncrasies: Some unique pronunciations as explained in his pdf file.

Content

  • Greek NT Text: USB 3/4 - Nestle-Aland 26/27 as found on Ralph Hancock's site
  • Septuagint Text: ?
  • Included New Testament Texts: 1 John,(or by chapter 1  2  3  4  5 ); John 3:1-16 (Files embedded in pdf)
  • Septuagint (including apocrypha): Genesis 1 (Files embedded in pdf)
  • Other Religious texts: None
  • Secular texts:
  • Other texts:
  • Note: Files for 1 John are presented both in a training mode with weekly readings or in a conversational speed. The author has linked them to the pdf file.

 

 

 


 

Help complete this list.

If anyone has anymore information on any other audio readings, or want to 'grade' the ones listed above, please  send the information in and I will add them to the list. Please include the following elements:

1) Speaker Name
2) Speaker Gender
3) Foreign Accent of speaker
4) Pace of reading
5) Phraseology i.e. keeps phrases together
6) Smoothness of delivery
7) System of pronunciation i.e. Erasmus', Restored Attic, Living Koine, Modern, modified xxxxx
8) Consistency of Pronunciation
9) Correct Accentuation
10) Voice tones i.e. pleasant, harsh
11) clear pronunciation i.e. no mumbling, muffled syllables
12) Oddities and peculiarities
13) Greek Text Used
14) List of texts: e.g. All NT, Mt-Luke, etc.
15) Quality of recording: background noise, mic quality, editing, splices, etc.
16) availability of text i.e. free internet, purchase, etc.
17) website(s) found or available for purchase
18) file format i.e. mp3, cd-rom
19) ISBN or ISBN-13 numbers
20) your comments and overall impression