Koine Greek

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In Romans 1:14, Paul writes: I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. (NRSV). Assuming your browser can show Unicode characters, here's what that looks like in Koiné, or 'common' first-century Greek:

• Ἕλλησίν τε καὶ βαρβάροις, σοφοῖς τε καὶ ἀνοήτοις ὀφειλέτης εἰμί

This page collects some useful resources for Koiné Greek, and its online use with Unicode-compatible browsers. If you ever have to produce accented Greek text, e.g. for essays, our Koiné character generator may save you some time and frustration. If you maintain a website which uses accented Greek, the PHP Betacode Script which provides these functions may be more useful still.

General resources

Ancient Greek Tutorials — Dept. of Classics, University of Berkeley

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/ancient_greek_start.html

Biblical Greek Audio with Interlinear — BiblicalGreekAudio.com has Biblical Greek audio files combined with interlinear Greek and English, so you can listen to the Greek and read along. The English helps so that you don't have to stop and look up the meaning of the Greek words.

www.BiblicalGreekAudio.com

Differences Between Classical and Hellenistic Greek — A Quick Introduction by Jay C. Treat

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/koine/classical.html

GNT in GIF format — University of York; Greek New Testament in GIF format, one GIF per verse. It requires no special fonts, obviously.

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/chapters.html

Greek Audio New Testament — by Marilyn Phemister, Westcott & Hort text on MP3, free to download from CCEL

http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/gnt/home.html

Greek Fonts — great collection from 'Greek Grammar on the Web'

http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/greekg/fonts.htm

Greek Language and Linguistics — Lexical aids, grammars, current research, discussion lists

http://www.greek-language.com/

Grenet.ttf -- Greek TrueType Font — nice truetype font, with normal key mappings. No macro's required.

http://my.tele2.ee/docs/grenet/

Institute for Biblical Greek — Probably the best single source for NT / Koine Greek resources online

http://www.biblicalgreek.org/

Interlinear Greek Text — In PDF format; one chapter per file

http://www.concordant.info/OnlineInterlinear.htm

Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts — accommodates non-readers of Greek

http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html

Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism — electronic journal dedicated to the study of biblical texts

http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/TC.html

Learn ancient Greek well and then read the New Testament? — a reading list from Amazon, by a seminary student.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/37LW3MF7MXB0B/ref=cm_bg_dp_l_2/104-2109558-9287903

Learning NT Greek Online — using internet resources

http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/

MorphGNT — A morphologically parsed Greek New Testament file (by a very interesting polymath from Perth). GREAT for application development.

http://www.jtauber.com/morphgnt

New Testament Greek search — allows grammatical searching

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/search.html

Polytonic Greek Unicode Fonts — From David McCreedy's Gallery of Unicode Fonts, with images.

http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_GreekPoly.html

Read the Greek New Testament — a word-by-work step-through of the Greek text, with explanations throughout

http://www.btinternet.com/~MisPar/GNotes/

Resource pages for Biblical Studies — A well maintained web directory (as of mid 2004).

http://torreys.org/bible/biblia01.html

Web Directory: Greek Text — from bible-researcher.com, an excellent list of resources

http://www.bible-researcher.com/links03.html

Zhubert.com — An excellent web-based tool for browsing, searching and analysing a morphologically parsed Greek New Testament.

http://www.zhubert.com