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To: Pelham

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No, Koine was not Alexander’s language.

His was closer to the language of the classical era.


212 posted on 08/26/2015 9:24:23 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

“No, Koine was not Alexander’s language. His was closer to the language of the classical era.”

That would be true of Alexander himself who was tutored by Aristotle. Koine developed in the Empire that Alexander created.


213 posted on 08/26/2015 9:36:30 AM PDT by Pelham (Without deportation you have defacto amnesty)
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