Earlier this year (2010), I purchased an MP3 recorder, with the idea that it might prove serviceable in some way for translation work. One use that I have put it to has been to make recordings of the New Testament, read aloud, chapter by chapter, in the original Greek. Since some readers of this blog might be interested in hearing these recordings, I am making them available here for downloading. I expect to continue making these recordings, and adding them from time to time to this page, until I have recorded the whole Greek New Testament. The version I am reading from is the bilingual version (Ancient and Modern Greek) published by the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania in 1993, a reprint of the version published by the United Bible Societies in 1967; to the best of my knowledge, it gives the Majority Text of the New Testament.
I make no apologies for the many stumblings, hesitations, corrections, and mispronunciations that one will hear in these files. They are meant for my own use, and for my practice in reading the language aloud; if they prove helpful to anyone else, thanks be to God; if, to the ears of any Greek purist, they are found grating or tedious, I can only point out that I am not a native Greek speaker, that no one is being forced to listen to this or can claim not to have received their money’s worth, since it has cost them nothing, and that those who would carp at such efforts surely have better things to do with their time. The pronunciation is Modern, not Erasmian; it gives a fair approximation of the way Ancient Greek is currently spoken in the suburbs of New Jersey.
Note: As of December 25th, 2010, this page is complete, and gives links to all the chapters of the New Testament.
Matthew 1
Matthew 2
Matthew 3
Matthew 4
Matthew 5
Matthew 6
Matthew 7
Matthew 8
Matthew 9
Matthew 10
Matthew 11
Matthew 12
Matthew 13
Matthew 14
Matthew 15
Matthew 16
Matthew 17
Matthew 18
Matthew 19
Matthew 20
Matthew 21
Matthew 22
Matthew 23
Matthew 24
Matthew 25
Matthew 26
Matthew 27
Matthew 28
Mark 1
Mark 2
Mark 3
Mark 4
Mark 5
Mark 6
Mark 7
Mark 8
Mark 9
Mark 10
Mark 11
Mark 12
Mark 13
Mark 14
Mark 15
Mark 16
Luke 1
Luke 2
Luke 3
Luke 4
Luke 5
Luke 6
Luke 7
Luke 8
Luke 9
Luke 10
Luke 11
Luke 12
Luke 13
Luke 14
Luke 15
Luke 16
Luke 17
Luke 18
Luke 19
Luke 20
Luke 21
Luke 22
Luke 23
Luke 24
John 1
John 2
John 3
John 4
John 5
John 6
John 7
John 8
John 9
John 10
John 11
John 12
John 13
John 14
John 15
John 16
John 17
John 18
John 19
John 20
John 21
Acts 1
Acts 2
Acts 3
Acts 4
Acts 5
Acts 6
Acts 7
Acts 8
Acts 9
Acts 10
Acts 11
Acts 12
Acts 13
Acts 14
Acts 15
Acts 16
Acts 17
Acts 18
Acts 19
Acts 20
Acts 21
Acts 22
Acts 23
Acts 24
Acts 25
Acts 26
Acts 27
Acts 28
Romans 1
Romans 2
Romans 3
Romans 4
Romans 5
Romans 6
Romans 7
Romans 8
Romans 9
Romans 10
Romans 11
Romans 12
Romans 13
Romans 14
Romans 15
Romans 16
1 Corinthians 1
1 Corinthians 2
1 Corinthians 3
1 Corinthians 4
1 Corinthians 5
1 Corinthians 6
1 Corinthians 7
1 Corinthians 8
1 Corinthians 9
1 Corinthians 10
1 Corinthians 11
1 Corinthians 12
1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 14
1 Corinthians 15
1 Corinthians 16
2 Corinthians 1
2 Corinthians 2
2 Corinthians 3
2 Corinthians 4
2 Corinthians 5
2 Corinthians 6
2 Corinthians 7
2 Corinthians 8
2 Corinthians 9
2 Corinthians 10
Galatians 1
Galatians 2
Galatians 3
Galatians 4
Galatians 5
Galatians 6
Ephesians 1-2
Ephesians 3
Ephesians 4
Ephesians 5
Ephesians 6
Philippians 1-3
Philippians 4
Colossians 1
Colossians 2
Colossians 3
Colossians 4
1 Thessalonians 1
1 Thessalonians 2
1 Thessalonians 3
1 Thessalonians 4
1 Thessalonians 5
2 Thessalonians 1
2 Thessalonians 2
2 Thessalonians 3
1 Timothy 1
1 Timothy 2
1 Timothy 3
1 Timothy 4
1 Timothy 5
1 Timothy 6
2 Timothy 1
2 Timothy 2
2 Timothy 3
2 Timothy 4
Titus 1
Titus 2
Titus 3
Philemon
Hebrews 1
Hebrews 2
Hebrews 3
Hebrews 4
Hebrews 5
Hebrews 6
Hebrews 7
Hebrews 8
Hebrews 9
Hebrews 10
Hebrews 11
Hebrews 12
Hebrews 13
James 1
James 2
James 3
James 4
James 5
1 Peter 1
1 Peter 2
1 Peter 3
1 Peter 4
1 Peter 5
2 Peter 1
2 Peter 2
2 Peter 3
1 John 1
1 John 2
1 John 3
1 John 4
1 John 5
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation 1
Revelation 2
Revelation 3
Revelation 4
Revelation 5
Revelation 6
Revelation 7
Revelation 8
Revelation 9
Revelation 10
Revelation 11
Revelation 12
Revelation 13
Revelation 14
Revelation 15
Revelation 16
Revelation 17
Revelation 18
Revelation 19
Revelation 20
Revelation 21
Revelation 22
May 22, 2010 at 5:42 am
Happy Birthday, Dr. Gilbert! May our Lord bless you on this special occasion and always!
May 22, 2010 at 10:15 am
It’s nice to hear your voice again! Happy Birthday!
May 22, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Happy Birthday, Peter! Hope it’s a good one.
July 18, 2010 at 9:24 am
Peter,
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but I’ve just downloaded a few of your files, and wanted to thank you for them. I hope that they’ll help to motivate me to do something with Greek and that I’ll be back for more! Many thanks!
May 2, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Dear Dr. Gilbert,
WHAT A GREAT GIFT to your brothers and sisters in Christ everywhere. I will enjoy and undoubtedly be edified by these recordings you have kindly shared.
Sincerely
Jennie Smith Las Vegas NV
June 7, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Dear Jennie,
A very belated thank you for your comment. The people at Apple are discontinuing their web hosting service (“MobileMe”) on which I have kept all the audio files collected in this post; I will need to transfer them to some other server before MobileMe goes defunct at the end of June. Your note gives me the needed stimulus to do so; it is good to know that these recorded readings of the Bible are actually being listened to by some people.
In Christ,
Peter Gilbert