{"id":452,"date":"2007-12-08T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=452"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:55:00","slug":"greek-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/12\/08\/greek-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek to me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega<\/p>\n

I’m trying to learn Greek. Not modern Greek. Greek of antiquity. I’m trying to gain an understanding of it so that I can ultimately read the New Testament in its original language. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

So far it’s pretty tough, but I can effectively read it out loud, albeit in a rudimentary way (I have yet to learn all the accents and vowel combinations). I can recognize some words too like adelphous<\/i> (brothers, as in phil-adelphia). <\/p>\n

I’ve made some neat discoveries too. The tribe of Judah in Israel is the same word as Judas. I wonder why they decided to write it as Judah? And the first word of the New Testament is Biblos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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