[B-Greek] Question on Coptic and Greek
Awohili at aol.com
Awohili at aol.com
Tue Jul 14 08:56:29 EDT 2009
Koine Greek had a long history in Egypt. In Coptic in 20 Lessons, (2007)
Bentley Layton says: "Greco-Coptic words were adopted from Greek,
especially after the Macedonian conquest of Egypt (332 BC), which imposed upon the
Egyptians a Greek-speaking government based in Alexandria. Greek was also
the administrative language of the Roman and Byzantine province of
Egypt...About one fourth of the Sahidic Coptic New Testament word list is
Greco-Coptic." (p. 2)
Additionally, the Copts, as Egyptian Christians, likely felt more
comfortable with theological terms that more precisely reflected their beliefs than
did certain native Egyptian words.
Solomon Landers
Sahidic Coptic: "peiwt me mpSHre auw afti nka nim ehrai etefgij."
"The Father loves the Son and has given everything into his hand."--- John
3:35
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Barry <nebarry at verizon.net> wrote:
From: Barry <nebarry at verizon.net>
Subject: [B-Greek] Question on Coptic and Greek
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:05 PM
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/_ (http://www.montclair.edu/)
Classics Instructor, The American Academy
_http://www.theamericanacademy.net/_ (http://www.theamericanacademy.net/)
And me: _http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog_
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