Bible Greek

Biblical Greek is or was used to denote the following koine- based variants of the Greek language :

• New Testament Greek , the language of the various writings of the New Testament (originated in the 1st and 2nd centuries)
• Until the 19th century the language of the Septuagint , the Greek translation of the Old Testament (originated around 250 BC to 100 AD)

literature

• Winfried Hamm: Art. Greek language. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. Volume 4, Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1995, ISBN 3-45-122004-0 , Sp. 1054. Quote: “The Koine is also the root of the so-called Biblical Greek , which summarizes the Greek of the OT (Greek translation and originally Greek available. Fonts) u. of the NT. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Raimund Wirth: The Septuagint of the Samuel Books: Examined taking into account their reviews. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, ISBN 978-3-64753694-1 , p. 224
2. ↑ Folker Siegert: Introduction to Hellenistic-Jewish Literature: Apokrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Fragments of Lost Author's Works. Walter de Gruyter, 2016 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)