[B-Greek] "The Passion" and Koine Greek
Kent & Lauren Clarke
kentdclarke at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 18 21:09:41 EDT 2003
Dear Colleagues:
I would agree with Professor Conrad. For an interesting read that relates to
this issue, see S.E. Porter, "Did Jesus Ever Teach In Greek?", TynBul 44/2
(1993), pp. 199-235. He makes some very interesting points.
Kind Regards;
Kent
Kent D. Clarke (Ph.D. Bristol)
Department of Religious Studies
Trinity Western University
7600 Glover Road
Langley, British Columbia
Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
To: <jajackso at excite.com>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] "The Passion" and Koine Greek
> At 4:11 PM -0400 9/17/03, James Jackson wrote:
> >
> >So I guess my question is, was Koine Greek a prevalent language spoken in
> >Israel during the first century? I realize that there were many
> >Hellenistic Jews living in Israel at that time and would have spoken
Greek
> >to each other. However I am not sure what language would have been spoken
> >between those of different nationalities during that time.
>
> There's a good deal of speculation here. It is certain that Koine Greek
WAS
> spoken "between those of different nationalities" in first-century
> Palestine, and it was surely the dominant language in some Palestinian
> communities, especially in the so-called "Decapolis" to the east of the
Sea
> of Galilee, and merchants and military people must have used Greek; I
> personally think that a lot of Greek was spoken in Galilee. It is a
> question open to dispute whether Jesus spoke or understood Greek at all:
> some list-members seem to deem it extremely unlikely while others (myself
> included) think it not at all unlikely that he did. In fact, however, this
> is a question that really lies beyond the proper scope of B-Greek, where
we
> need to keep the focus on matters pertaining to the language itself and to
> Greek biblical texts.
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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