Brief notices

Just as the title indicates, this massive work offers a guide to the way in which Greek of the New Testament, and the New Testament era more broadly, was pronounced.The book starts with some introductory chapters on relevant scholarship, on sources, and on the social, historical, and linguistic setting of Judea-Palestine in the relevant chronological period.Interestingly too, in recognition of the likelihood that many users of this work will not be linguists and so might be more interested in the New Testament per se than in the details of the phonological history of Greek, there is as well a brief but helpful Chapter 5, on "How to Read (the Phonology Section of) This Book".After those preliminaries, Dr. Kantor turns to the real meat of the book, two substantial, and substantive, chapters on the details of the phonological system of Greek of the era, each of which, given their length and the amount of information they each contain, could in principle constitute a book in and of itself: Chapter 7 (pp.93-346) on consonants and Chapter 8 (pp.347-767) on vowels and diphthongs (with an understandably brief section (pp.759-764) on accent and stress).While the facts reported on here are for the most part well known, having all the information compiled in one place makes this compendium especially useful.This work is destined to become the standard citation for the phonology of Greek in this period.