RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2015 at 6:36 pm by Randy Carson.)
(May 16, 2015 at 6:28 pm)abaris Wrote:(May 16, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Not so, PT.
The gospels and the epistles were written in Greek.
My English translation was made from the Greek and not from some intermediary language(s).
Right, and where does that leave us?
Hopefully, you don't assume that the people providing the campfire tales basics did so in Greek? There already was an abundance of intermediaries in all kinds of languages.
So that leaves as again with the three fundamental questions any historian would aks and which you continue to ignore.
When?
Where?
Why?
Why might be the most important question, since not every wayward person could write, let alone in Greek. Greek was the language of nobility and the elites in the Roman empire. That leaves us with the question, was the book - or rather books - commissioned by anyone?
I already answered the when question in detail in post #65.
Did you miss it?
