GGS11s11: Mary's Greek and other geeky stuff
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2012-05-03

This video was fun to make.  I practice pronouncing the Magnificat in different ways, play with elision and cadence, then make comments on her Atticisms and Hebraisms.  You want to hear the FLOW, so you can tell if you're reading it well.  Even, with an American accent, lol.  I have to practice more.

The essential difference:  in OLDER language, you always have SHORT vowels.  Dipthongs arose to create the sounds of what we call 'long' vowels.  So 'ei' should be pronounced eh+ee, quickly;  'ai' would be ah+ee, spoken quickly.  One syllable.  Eventually I'll do another pronunciation video when I get the sounds right, using the foregoing 'short vowel' rule.

By contrast, there's a FAD by today's 'scholars' claiming modern Hebrew/Greek is nearly the same as 2000 years ago. Their argument has gone on forever, and it's political.  The people who speak those languages natively, want to claim they speak as the ancients did.  How false and childish. 

So today, there's a weird argument that sloppy Greek inscriptions misspelled, tell you pronunciation.  But they are not Bible inscriptions.  So you can't gauge proper BIBLE pronunciation from some stupid cult follower in a cave, writing Dead Sea scrolls in lazy Greek, k?  The Ebionites and similar Jewish cults of the 1st century BC-AD were weirdoes, so how competent were they?  NOT.

Yet like insisting hillbilly English be treated as standard for Bible English, the fad now, is to use a 300-year span (up to 300AD!) of sloppy Greek writing, as justification for abandoning a 2000 year old standard of how EDUCATED Greek had been pronounced (ever since 500 BC, the rules were known and taught as part of 'rhetoric').  Get Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek by James Morwood, see the difference.

So no true scholar listened to the fad back when Bible scholarship was worthy, 50 years ago.  But today, 'scholarship' caters to whoever-pays-the-most, and get-along-with-everyone. Scripture is thus maligned.  What will God say to them, at the Judgment Seat of Christ?

For you'll miss the wordplay, soundplay and FLOW with modern Greek, since the latter ELIDES practically every other syllable.  Use CLASSICAL Greek pronunciation, if you want to get closer to the original.

These things matter, when parsing text to test it for Bible Hebrew meter -- which yes, Virginia, really exists in Bible, and even the NT writers use its meter, with Greek words!  

Bible Hebrew Meter Characteristics:  (Word doc) http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebMeterCharacs.doc or pdf or http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebMeterCharacs.htm .  Both doc and htm require you to download fonts;  link to those fonts will be in their first lines.

Associated links (i.e., to stuff shown in the video so you can vet it yourself):
http://www.brainout.net/MagnificatMeterDraft2.doc  (or 'pdf', for the pdf copy), Mary's Meter structure.  You need the free BibleWorks fonts for the doc, http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html .

http://www.brainout.net/MagnificatCalendar.xls showing the countdown from Antiochus IV and Chanukah, which Mary 'maps'.  Column F is yet incomplete.  Dates are shown in 'our' errant BC/AD system, as well as in Roman AUC calendar, which I suspect Mary and Paul use.  Still testing that idea.

http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90inHebrew.doc (or 'pdf', for the pdf version), page 8, on Psalm 90 sevened-meter structure.  For the doc, you also need BibleWorks fonts.

http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF (or 'pdf') , Daniel 9:4-19's meter structure, 'ChronoChart' section.  For the rtf, you also need BibleWorks fonts.

That rtf(pdf) also has extensive notes on his king-mapping with ties to the Chronicles and Kings verses he references.
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Map.pdf Isaiah 53's meter map structure.
http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls Map of Time from Adam forward, so you can better tie real time to Psalm 90's meter map.

http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (or htm) on Ephesians 1 (Pages 2-3 summarize God's Doctrine of Time, pp.4-5 contain all links to all related videos, Word docs and webpages on both the meter and the Doctrine of Time in Bible.)  For the doc (or htm), you also need BibleWorks fonts.  The pdf is http://www.brainout.net/Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf .