What is the source for the Pronunciation Tool sounds?
Is it collated from independent language authorities, or is it created in-house within Faithlife?
Please advise with any citations. Thanks.
If you select the Information option in the panel menu you will be able to see details about the currently selected pronunciation group. Hopefully this will help answer your questions.
Andrew, thanks for that.
Information inside Pronunciation Tool returned the following:
Language
Hebrew and Aramaic
Style
Israeli Biblical Hebrew
Reader
Dr. Randall Buth
Greek
Koine
Prof. John Schwandt
Modern
Interesting as this info is, it doesn't answer my query.
Not seeing any evidence of where the pronunciations are sourced from.
Where did the Readers get their
I believe the pronunciation choices were made by the readers.
The information includes some details about those choices.
Thanks for that, Andrew.
Yes, I read their explanations for how certain words were voiced.
Still surprised that there is no citation which verifies the source for the pronunciations!
How does Faithlife/Logos know if the pronunciations provided are accurate?
We have sound citations/bibliography for the books and media data, why not something similar for the pronunciations?
I'm not really an expert on this subject, so maybe I shouldn't be trying to answer, but I'm not aware that there is any consensus on what pronunciations are "accurate". That's why the information is descriptive about the pronunciation scheme that was chosen by the reader.
@Andrew Batishko is right. There is often not a consensus. Furthermore, there were regional differences regarding pronunciation as well as variation through history.
Fortunately, a search within Logos of "Greek phonology" should provide some answers.
Finally, there is a strong notion (nothing in biblical scholarship is ever a consensus) that both people mentioned above are very good at what they do. Buth, for example, IIRC, can speak conversational Koine and has taught it as well.
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