[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia, possible reconsideration

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Sat Apr 19 20:36:18 UTC 2008


On Saturday 19 April 2008 21:40:37 geni wrote:
> On 19/04/2008, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 April 2008 14:32:38 geni wrote:
> >  > On 19/04/2008, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > > Someone already mentioned that Koine Greek is the ecclesiastical
> >  > >  language of the Greek Orthodox Church and they still use it
> >  > > actively. Maybe there aren't as many people in the GOC as in the
> >  > > Catholic church (by a long shot), but I think it still counts for
> >  > > something.
> >  >
> >  > Koine Greek is not Ancient Greek. Merely using it in the liturgy
> >  > counts for nothing in any case the language remains fossilised. Simply
> >  > Kyrie eleison on a slightly larger scale. The catholic church actually
> >  > publishes a significant number of new documents in Latin.
> >
> > It is not used solely in the liturgy, and new texts are being written in
> > it today.
>
> Links?

http://dp.rastko.net/list_etexts.php?x=s

Το μυστηριον τησ Αγιασ Τριαδοσ κατα τον αγιον Γρηγοριον Παλαμαν by Αμφιλοχιου 
Ραντοβιτσ, μητροπολιτου is a modern doctoral dissertation written in Koine 
Greek.



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