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  • From: "Yohanan bin-Dawidh" <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Harold Holmyard" <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What language?
  • Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:22:51 -0500

Dear Harold,

Note that this cited text from Wikipedia refers to Koine Greek as
Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common or New Testament, and states that it is the
Greek dialect that arose within the Meditteranean, i.e. mainly Semitic
lands, where Semitic language was spoken, and thus a dialect of
Greek/Semitic language arose. This reminds of the perversions of Yiddish and
Ladino that my people speak, which are dialects of Hebrew mixed with other
languages. It is likewise reported that Koine while taking from Semitic
languages also carries Latin variants within. Basically, it is trash talk,
as testified to by those who spokeAttic Greek.

Yohanan bin-Dawidh


On 4/14/07, Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net> wrote:

Yohanan bin-Dawidh wrote:
> Shoshanna,
>
> I would agree with Gary here, except for the idea that it was the lingua
> franca of the day, for outside of the NT there is no evidence of such
per
> se. Actually, most honest Greek speakers would tell you that Koine is
trash
> talk, gutter language, i.e. not good Greek, and the reason why is that
it is
> as if a bunch of people who did not speak Greek took a dictionary, and
tried
> to translate from their language into Greek without knowing the language
to
> which were translating.
>

HH: You should have stuck with simply agreeing with Gary. Here's some
information about Koine Greek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek

Koine Greek (Κοινὴ Ἑλληνική, "common Greek", or ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, "the
common dialect") is the popular form of Greek that emerged in
post-classical antiquity (c.300 BC – AD 300), and marks the third period
in the history of the Greek language. Other names are Alexandrian,
Hellenistic, Common, or New Testament Greek. Koine Greek is important
not only to the history of the Greeks for being their first common
dialect and main ancestor of Demotic Greek, but it is also significant
for its impact on Western Civilization as a lingua franca for the
Mediterranean. Koine also was the original language of the New Testament
of the Christian Bible as well as the medium for the teaching and
spreading of Christianity. Koine Greek was unofficially a first or
second language in the Roman Empire.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard

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