From: Garrett B Trott (gtrott@juno.com)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 19:04:04 EDT
The Greek of the book of Revelation is similar to Hebrew, particularly OT
apocalyptic literature, Ezekiel and parts of Daniel. Even Hebrew idioms
are not translated, but they are more transliterated from Hebrew into
Greek. Whether or not this is common to a Greek-speaking, Palestinian
Jew, I am not sure.
-Garrett Trott
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:50:58 -0400 Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
writes:
>
> > n 10/20/00 1:36 PM, Mike Sangrey wrote:
> > Could the Greek of Revelation be that way because the intended
> > audience was Palestinian Jews?
>
> Thanks Clayton for your response.
>
> Let me ask the question differently.
>
> Is the Greek of Revelation substantially similar to the Greek of a
> Palestinian Jew? Do we have a way of knowing?
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