Get A New Translation From The Greek By David Robert Palmer

The Greek in the New Testament is the so-called koine 'common language'. Based originally on the Greek of Athens, it was circulated throughout Alexander the Great's empire. Languages acquired by many non-native speakers are generally simplified, as was the koine.

It was probably the increasing significance of educated Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt that prompted the translation of the Old Testament into Greek in the 3rd century BCE. The history of the translation project is recorded in a legendary letter sent by a certain Aristeas to his friend Philocrates.

The first known translation of the Bible into Greek is called the Septuagint (LXX; 3rd–1st centuries BC). The LXX was written in Koine Greek.

And, finally, Alexander's Hellenistic political and cultural transformation of the Mediterranean and the Near East explains why Greek is the original language of the New Testament. To reach the largest audience in the region where Christianity was born, Greek was the obvious language to use.

The New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323 BC) until the evolution of Byzantine Greek (c.

Novum Instrumentum omne was the first published New Testament in Greek (1516).