[B-Greek] attic writers during koine period or post koine

Alex Poulos apviper at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 11:20:08 EST 2010


It is worth pointing out, though, that the NT may have been subject to
"atticization" on a micro-level.  Some of the textual variants we have may
have come about through replacing a koine form with an attic one.  This is
supposed to have especially been the case in Alexandria, where there was a
strong intellectual culture.  I don't know enough to say if that's the case,
but I have read it.

Alex Poulos
Senior - Computer Science
NC State University


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Barry H. <nebarry at verizon.net> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "nikolaos kadamou" <
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>
>  Thank you Mark.
>> It seems to me that the Language of the Gospel and the entire NT is real
>> and
>> powerful.
>> The common dialect, (κοινὴ διάλεκτος), is more powerful than the attic
>> dialect, and thus more appropriate for Gods word to people.
>> I do not think it was any reason for the early church to go though such an
>> effort that in all practical essence it is meaningless.
>> The task was to transmit the word of God and not to get involved in an
>> academic exercise.
>>
>
> However, such an exercise would be very interesting to determine how the
> text was being read by Greek speakers of that period, at least, of the one
> doing the translating.  More powerful?  It was commonly spoken, but "more
> powerful" strikes me as a hopelessly subjective evaluation, depending on
> precisely what you mean by it.
>
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