Publication

1995-02-22 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100300062559
  • ISBN-139780300062557
  • LibraryThing212871
  • Better World Books9780300062557
  • Open LibraryOL9839959M

First Sentence

It remains one of the most momentous linguistic convergences in the entire history of the human mind and spirit that the New Testament happens to have been written in Greeknot in the Hebrew of Moses and the prophets, nor in the Aramaic of Jesus and his disciples, nor yet in the Latin of the imperium Romanum, but in the Greek of Socrates and Plato, or at any rate in a reasonably accurate facsimile thereof, disguised and even disfigured though this was in the Koine by the intervening centuries of Hellenistic usage.

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