The New Testament wasn’t written in Hebrew?
Many people assume that the New Testament was written in Hebrew as well, but by the time the gospels were being written, many Jews didn’t even speak Hebrew anymore. Rome had conquered Greece, and the influence of Greek culture had saturated the empire. What’s interesting about Biblical Greek is that it didn’t use a high-class or complicated style; it was written in koine (common Greek), a language that could be understood by almost anyone, educated or not.
>> “ but by the time the gospels were being written, many Jews didn’t even speak Hebrew anymore” <<
. That is just plain balderdash.
The ruler over judea was Herrod, who was of Edom (Esau). He spoke Hebrew as all Edomites did. So did all Samaritans, as they had always done. Nobody ever stopped speaking Hebrew. At no time did any of the disciples speak or understand any language but Hebrew, and they certainly had no ability or capacity to learn Greek, and why would they?
The Hebrew colloquy in the Greek translations are solid proof that they were copied from Hebrew.