(October 26, 2014 at 11:00 am)polar bear Wrote: XPASTOR- not trying to trip anyone up here. Why is the bible written in 2 different languages? I never understood that. It seems that people would loose some meaning translating it back and forth so many times.
Because originally the OT was written to the hebrew people. Therefore it was originally written In ancient Hebrew.
Then several hundred years after the last book of the OT was written, Alexander the great took over the world and spread the greek as the primary written language in an effort to assimilate the people of the conquered regions. A couple years after that Rome came to power took the region from the Greeks and at the time maintained the written language in that region. So that means at the time of Christ (nt) everyone who could read and write read and wrote koine greek as their primary language.
