[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
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Classics Instructor, The American Academy
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