(August 18, 2009 at 3:42 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:The Bible was written across a period of several centuries in the languages of Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament). With the changing of nations and cultures across the centuries, these original writings have been translated many times to make the Bible available in different languages.(August 18, 2009 at 9:07 am)The_Truth Wrote: The NEW TESTAMENT was written in Greek. The OLD TESTAMENT was written in ancient Hebrew.
As far as I can tell the oldest "old testament" as in more or less complete as it is today used by the early Christians was in Greek ... I'm no historian so that is not a fact but I would say that Retorth may have been correct.
Kyu
The Old Testament, it is well known, is written mostly in Hebrew; the New Testament is written wholly in Greek. The parts of the Old Testament not in Hebrew, namely, Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26; Jeremiah 10:11; Daniel 2:4-7:28, are in Aramaic (the so-called Chaldee), a related Semitic dialect, which, after the Exile, gradually displaced Hebrew as the spoken language of the Jews.
http://www.bibleanswerstand.org/QA_written.htm