John's Revelation
A Modern Annotated Translation
- ISBN: 978-3-7557-9152-2
+ ISBN Paperback: 978-3-7557-9152-2
Cover background image (Carle Hessay, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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+Welcome to the About page. Here you will find some information about me, but also information about the website itself, why it was created, the types of texts and documents you might find, the reason behind its simplistic design and some information regarding the navigating through pages. If you wish to know more about my current projects, please visit the projects page. This site also has a Twitter account, I recommend you check it out!
- ISBN: 978-3-7557-9152-2
+ ISBN Paperback: 978-3-7557-9152-2
Cover background image (Carle Hessay, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The book has yet to be published; it is currently being processed and reviewed. In the meantime, you may download a free copy of the book as a PDF or EPUB from this page here.
+The book can be bought in most major countries in the world, especially those that have Amazon. Simply look for the ISBN stated above on Amazon and you should be able to find the book there. The prices may differ, but should be around $10. On Amazon, you should also be able to find the Kindle e-book for roughly half the price of the paperback; it has been very nicely formatted by my publisher and is easily readable on a Kindle device.
A readers’s edition of the Greek Old Testament (Septuaginta); one of my favourites.
+ +A pseudo-facsimile of (one) the oldest copies of the Bible — in a more modern format.
+I would like to start off this article with a quote from one of the letters I have written in Ancient Greek, as I believe it illustrates nicely the reason for my buying this book and finding it most intriguing: —
+ ++ ὅτῳ οὖν τόπῳ ἂν λαλήσαιμεν τοῖς πρὶν ἡμῶν βιοῦσιν; δοκεῖ δ’ ἐμοί γ’ ὅτι μήποτε οἷος τ’ ἐσόμεθα τοῦτο τὸ πρᾶγμα ποιεῖσθαι· ἀλλὰ τὰς φωνὰς αὐτῶν, διὰ τὸ ἀναγνῶσαι τοὺς ὑπ’ αὐτῶν γεγράφαται λόγους, δυνάμεθα ῥαδίως ἀκοῦσαι. οὐκοῦν μὲν δεῖ ἡμᾶς τὰς γλώττας αὐτῶν μαθεῖν ἵν’ αὐτῶν ἀκούσωμεν· οὐ δύνατος γὰρ εἴη τὰς φωνὰς αὐτῶν ἀκοῦσαι εἰ ἀναγνοῖμεν αὐτὰς ἐν γλώττῃ τινι ἅ οὐκ ἐλαλήθη ὐπ’ αὐτῶν. ++ +
+ In what manner are we to speak to those who lived before us? It seems to me, at least, that we will never be able to do this; but we can listen to their words through the reading of the words that were written by them. We, therefore, need to learn their language so that we might hear them; for it would not be possible to listen to their words when they are written in a language they did not speak. +
For, indeed, when one learns a foreign language, one tends to feel more closely connected to the culture behind said language, especially since — in my opinion — one cannot truly learn a foreign language without knowing at least something about the culture by which it is spoken. Therefore, I find the process of learning an ancient language and subsequently reading ancient texts akin to time travel; we may be unable to travel backwards in time — and, depending on whom you ask, we will never be able to do so —, but we can come close, namely by learning ancient languages.
+ +And whilst the reading of a modern reproduction of an ancient text allows you to get close to experiencing what is must have been like reading these texts back when they were first written, there is still quite a significant difference; modern reproductions of, for example, the New Testament use a very consistent, modern spelling with upper- and lowercase letters, accents, spaces, punctuation and more. All of these, however, are comparatively modern inventions and would not have been found in a text written in the 4th century AD. Instead, most texts at the time would not have had any punctuation or spaces between words, nor would there have been a distinction between upper- and lowercase letters; the script used by scribes at the time was a so-called uncial script, an all-majuscule script with no spaces or punctuation marks.
+ +Uncial scripts were the norm for languages such as Latin and Greek for quite a significant amount of time, so that coming across them when attempting to read original texts on their original medium is almost definitely guaranteed. Therefore, to get an even more proper
experience, one should really read the ancient texts the way they were actually written — and the Vaticanus Bible allows this. You can really imagine yourself being transported back in time, reading the codex as if it had just been written by a scribe and there is much more of a connection with the people of ancient times than there is when reading a modern reproduction.
Despite all of this, however, this particular edition does include a handful of more modern niceties that help someone who is unaccustomed to this type of text. Let us, then, begin to explore this edition of the Codex Vaticanus more in-depth.
+Now that we have briefly explored the reasons behind my really enjoying this Bible, I believe it is time to more thoroughly explore it.
+ +This particular edition of the Codex Vaticanus was created by Benjamin Paul Kantor of KoineGreek.com. There currently (as of March 10, 2022) exist two volumes of this Bible, one which includes the Gospels and another which includes Acts and the Epistles. Each of the volumes costs $39.99, but due to my not living in the US, I had to pay €49.50 by ordering it from the German Amazon. The edition that I currently own is the one which includes the Gospels — I may, at a later date, buy the second volume as well.
+Hello once again, I have returned with some hopefully good news! Firstly, I would like to mention that I have created a Twitter account for my website, on which I post lots of things about and also in Ancient Greek. It is an attempt at practicing writing in Ancient Greek and I highly recommend you check it out, especially if you are interested in reading daily journal-like posts written in Ancient Greek.
+Additionally, I have found another, very interesting edition of the Bible which should arrive today. Once it has arrived, I shall begin writing a new article about it which will subsequently reside in my Physical Shelf; so you can look forward to a new article about a most intriguing book soon!
+Hello everyone and welcome to yet another update. Recently, I stumbled across a version of Wordle which uses words from the Greek New Testament and I was immediately in love with it. I haven’t actually played Wordle before, but this version obviously has the rather nice side-effect of your learning some Greek — and having to think in Greek. It was created by James K. Tauber who released the source code on GitHub. I highly recommend you check out the Ancient Greek version of Wordle and try your best at guessing today’s word!
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