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To: JHavard; kosta50
Given the language the scripture was written in and/or first translated into, I'd say excellent.
298 posted on 09/22/2004 4:36:45 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Nuke the Cube!)
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To: Kolokotronis

Given the language the scripture was written in and/or first translated into, I'd say excellent.

Greek is really even more fundamental than that.
Obviously the New Testament was all written in Greek initially, but what about the Old?
Parts of it were originally composed in Greek.
And more importantly, the only compendium of Jewish Scriptures that would qualify as an ancient "Bible" in the time of Christ was the Septuagint. There was not, as yet, in the Jewish world a formal, settled canon, and the only full collection of Jewish Scriptures in use everywhere in the Jewish diaspora was the Greek Septuagint. When Jesus and the Apostles refer to the Scriptures, they are not referring to the Masoretic Text: there was not yet a Hebrew Canon. They were referring to the Septuagint. Greek was the primary OLD TESTAMENT language at the time of Christ as well as the language of the New Testament.


309 posted on 09/23/2004 7:53:07 AM PDT by Vicomte13
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