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

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 27 18:31:59 EST 2010


Alex observed:

<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.>

Excellent point, Alex.  And even before that, it can be argued that Luke 
"atticized" some of his sources, although in the first half of Acts he appears 
to have gone out of his way not to do this.

 Mark L
Φωσφορος 


FWSFOROS MARKOS




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From: Alex Poulos <apviper at gmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sat, November 27, 2010 9:20:08 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] attic writers during koine period or post koine

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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> To: "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 11:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] attic writers during koine period or post koine
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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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