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1 | Was NT Written in Greek or Hebrew? 1 | NT general Archive 1 | DocTrinsograce | 130632 | ||
I hate to be the first to answer your question, because (1) I know the others you mentioned exceed my meager base of knowledge and (2) because I worry that once answered, they might not have seen the question. I would like to hear the opinion of each of these fellows! I'm also interested in what you have to say, kalos. You may have seen several of my posts positing my belief that Christ often used Greek. I am even persuaded that the majority of New Testament statements of Jesus are verbatim. It is difficult to imagine Jerome, late in the fourth century, having been deceived on this issue. It is even harder to imagine him involved in some kind of conspiracy to hide the fact that the manuscripts had originally been in Hebrew. Furthermore, it is hard to imagine Paul using Hebrew to write to all of those Gentile readers. Even Josephus, a contemporary of Paul, only wrote in Greek. Like, Paul, the majority of his work was for Gentiles. However, he had a number of run-ins with some fellow Jews... and the monographs he wrote about that was in Greek. Furthermore, there are all kinds of idioms and word play throughout the NT that couldn't possibly have been crafted originally in Hebrew and then translated so well into Greek. It would have meant being too creative with the translation, if it had been possible at all. All this other palaver about original manuscripts machs nix, in my opinion. Copying of manuscripts was serious business even in the secular world. It was a million times more important to Jews and Christians. We also have scads of other Greek stuff from the earliest church fathers. The Didiche, for example, is also written in Greek and it possibly dates around 100 AD. I suspect that these guys have some specific reason for wanting the NT to have been written in Hebrew rather than Greek. I can't find any suggestion of this on the web that isn't very recent. If they have an agenda, that can make everything else come out biased. Well, there are my two mites, for what they are worth. I'm eager to hear from the others. |
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2 | Was NT Written in Greek or Hebrew? 1 | NT general Archive 1 | kalos | 130757 | ||
Thank you for your reply to the previous part of my multi-part question, "Was NT Written in Greek or Hebrew?". Note that I have posted the next part of it. You'll find it at ID# 130752. Your reply to this ID# would be much appreciated. Grace to you, Kalos |
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3 | Was NT Written in Greek or Hebrew? 1 | NT general Archive 1 | DocTrinsograce | 130922 | ||
Here are some further examples of random neurons firing in my brain... Has anyone noticed that the Caiaphas oussary and the more recently discovered James oussary both had the names of their occupants inscribed in Greek letters? The inscriptions were Aramaic ("Yehosef bar Kayafa'" and "Yacaqob bar Yosef ahwi Yeshuac" respectively) but were written with Greek letters. I can't claim certainty that these were the oussaries of the Biblical Caiaphas and James, but whoever they really were we know conclusively they were contemporaries of Christ. Greek writing must have been pretty well accepted to put the names of people on their grave stones. (By the way, the Caiaphas oussary is known to have contained the remains of a Sadducee family, and the James oussary is known to have contained the remains of a Pharisee family. That fact would tend to cancel out any foibles they might have had about using Greek.) I also did some digging around and found that the dedication inscriptions on synagogues in Judea from the period of the time of Christ were often in Greek. The most famous example of this is the Theodotus Inscription discovered in Mount Ophel in Jerusalem. These things tend to confirm my opinion of the usage of Greek in the time of Christ. I'd say that they might also weaken any argument about the New Testament having originally been written in something other than Greek. |
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4 | Was NT Written in Greek or Hebrew? 1 | NT general Archive 1 | kalos | 130933 | ||
Doc: Excellent post! Thank you for providing factual evidence. Grace to you, Kalos |
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