It appears the Old Testament should be read in Hebrew and Greek and the New Testanent should be read in NT Greek..
To learn greek, latin and some hebrew is to really learn what the messseges were because especially greek is a much more exact language than english. For example in english the Pharisees called Jesus ``drinking``
-The NT greek word actually means an `excessive drinker`-
So a lot is lost in translation-
Also there is often a play on words in the greek and aramaic in the NT. For example when Jesus says `I am the light of the world`, there is a play on words from the greek and the aramaic viz:
Pharos is the term for lighthouse- the greatest light in the world at that time was the lighthouse at Alexandria whose light could be seen on the horizon. But the sound `pharo` means
pharoah means `king` in greek- So what is Jesus telling His listeners here?
>> It appears the Old Testament should be read in Hebrew <<
I would hesitate in that conclusion. The Greek Old TEstament is considerably older than that which the Jews use. Jesus’ own use of the Old Testament is far closer to the Greeks’ than the later Jews’, and while Jews insist that their translation is unchanged since Moses, the historical record has shown that quite plainly there has been a variety of very disparate Jewish versions, and that the only pre-Christian Old Testaments we have (from the Qumran) are far closer to Jesus’ and the Greek’s than that of the post-Jamnian Jews.
In fact, if one is to take the post-Jamnian Jews as aithoritative, one must conclude that the New Testament is filled with misunderstandings and false claims to fulfillments of prophecies based on those misunderstandings.
So I would stick with the Greek Old Testament, as well as the Greek New Testament, but of course, I would also say that understanding Hebrew, rather than just Koine Greek, may help one understand even more fully what the Greeks were translating from.