(August 18, 2009 at 3:53 pm)The_Truth Wrote:(August 18, 2009 at 3:42 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: 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.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.
Yet as Minimalist pointed out the Codex Sinaiticus (the earliest complete New Testament) was hand written in Greek and according to Wikipedia (a source which I trust more than you, thoug that's not saying much):
Quote:The early Christian Church used the Septuagint, the oldest Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, as its religious text until at least the mid-fourth century.
So again I think it is worth assuming Retorth had a point.
Kyu
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