A Review of Benjamin Kantor The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek

Two 2023 volumes from Benjamin Kantor aim at the same target from different angles.The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek reconstructs the sound system of Judeo-Palestinian Koine, focusing on the early Roman period (ca.37 BC-135 AD).A Short Guide to the Pronunciation of New Testament Greek distills those results for teachers and students, pairing a brisk phonology primer with per-phoneme discussions and practical reading.Kantor bases his reconstruction of the sound system of Greek in this period on two bodies of evidence: orthographic variation and cross-language transliterations.For example, primarily interchanges with , , , and (Pronunciation, pp.122-26).1