Santiago Carbonell

Reading and Pronouncing Biblical Greek

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“If the use of the artificial Erasmian system for learning classical Greek is scientifically questionable, its application to the Koine of the Hellenistic era is even less justified. . . . Thanks to Zachariou’s work, students and instructors of Greek can now have an analysis of the evolution of the Greek phonological system from classical Greek to Koine and down to the present. Linguistic comparisons show that the current pronunciation of Greek legitimizes its use not only for learning post-classical Greek, but also classical Greek.”