Matthew's Greek

Jack Kilmon jkilmon at historian.net
Mon Sep 18 13:26:47 EDT 2000



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gert Young" <ANCIENT6 at AKAD.SUN.AC.ZA>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 8:25 AM
Subject: [b-greek] Matthew's Greek


> Hallo,
> 
> Given the idiosyncrasies of the greek of the Gospel of Matthew, is 
> it possible to make general statements about the structure of 
> Biblical Greek/Koine Greek/Hellenistic based on data from 
> Matthew's Gospel? (I suspect that some may say so, but before I 
> can say that Matthew's greek is not a true reflection of spoken 
> greek of the 1st century A.D., we have to define/describe the 
> properties of spoken greek in 1st century Palestine.)
> In the end the question could simply be "What kind of 
> generalizations could be made referring to data from the Gospel of 
> Matthew?" 

This makes the assumption that the Matthean scribe hailed
from 1st century Palestine.  More than likely He was a Greek
speaking diaspora Jew in Syria...likely Antioch.



Jack
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