People like Paul are called Hellenic Jews.
***The Greeks were the receptors of the NT, just as the Jews were the receptors of the OT. Does that not seem as if God switched horses in mid stream?
People like Paul are called Hellenic Jews.***
Jews who became Hellenized, or Greek-like. Does it not strike you as odd that even though Hebrew was the ancient language of the Jews, Aramaic was the language of the day in the whole area around Jerusalem; the best OT we have is the Septuagint (written in Greek), even though the earliest texts were written in Hebrew, and even though the Apostles and most of the disciples were Jewish, the OT (except for the first draft of Matthew, which we do not currently possess) was written entirely in Greek.
I agree with Kolo; the Greeks became the next chosen people because Israel kept rejecting God throughout the OT and they sure rejected Jesus. That state of choice was certainly not of the level of Israel, but still, one must consider that the best earliest Scripture we have is in Greek.