The pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek phonology and orthography from Alexander to Islam
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Summary of Contents -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Symbols and Abbreviations -- 1 Phonology of Koine Greek in Modern Scholarship -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Egypt and the Papyri -- 1.3 The Dialects of the Mediterranean and I...
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Summary of Contents -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Symbols and Abbreviations -- 1 Phonology of Koine Greek in Modern Scholarship -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Egypt and the Papyri -- 1.3 The Dialects of the Mediterranean and Inscriptions -- 1.4 Judea-Palestine and Greek Loanwords in Hebrew -- 1.5 An Overview -- 2 How Do We Know How Koine Greek Was Pronounced? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Data(base)-Driven Analysis of Spelling Interchanges -- 2.3 Greek Loanwords in Hebrew and Aramaic -- 2.4 Language Contact with Hebrew and Aramaic -- 2.5 Summary of Methodology -- 3 Language and Society in Judea-Palestine -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Language Environment: Greek, (Latin), Aramaic, Hebrew -- 3.3 Language Ideology -- 3.4 Greek-Hebrew/Aramaic Bilingualism -- 4 The Authors of the Inscriptions and Documents -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Spectrum of Literacy -- 4.3 Epigraphic Material (Inscriptions and Ostraca) -- 4.4 Documentary Texts (Contracts and Letters) -- 4.5 Biblical Manuscripts -- 4.6 Jewish, Christian, and Other Authors -- 4.7 Conclusions: Literacy, Orthography, and Phonology -- 4.8 Representation of Genre and Authors in the Data -- 5 How to Read (the Phonology Section of) This Book -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) -- 5.3 Phonology and Phonetics: The Phoneme and the Allophone -- 5.4 Historical Linguistics -- 5.5 Reading the Phonology Section -- 6 Judeo-Palestinian Koine in Time and Space -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Ancestor of the Koine: Great Attic -- 6.3 Developments in General Koine -- 6.3.1 Consonants -- 6.3.1.1 Simplification of ζ = /zd/ → /zz/ → /z/ -- 6.3.1.2 Fricativization of γ, β, δ -- 6.3.1.3 Fricativization of χ, φ, θ -- 6.3.1.4 Elision of spiritus asper /h/ -- 6.3.1.5 Post-Nasal Voicing of κ, π, τ. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (887 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1467462764 |