[B-Greek] Question on Coptic and Greek

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Mon Jul 13 20:05:35 EDT 2009


Attempting to improve my skill level in Coptic from rudimentary to 
elementary, I was looking at the Gospel of Thomas today, and noticed that 
there are a lot of Greek words.  Since the only Coptic literature I have 
ever looked at are some portions of the NT itself and GoT, I was wondering 
whether this is typical of Sahidic Coptic itself, lots of Greek loan words, 
or does it reflect the specific background of the GoT?  I know this is 
slightly off topic, so feel free to answer offline.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, Classics @ Montclair
http://www.montclair.edu/
Classics Instructor, The American Academy
http://www.theamericanacademy.net/

And me: http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog 




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