The Greek Language

Greek Linear B (13th century) Classical (Homer 8th to Plato 4th) Attic Greek (Alexander) Koine (common, loss subtleties) God sent his Son in the “fullness of time”

Linear B Classical Attic (dialect) Koine Modern

Not in English “Good enough for Paul …” Old and Middle English OT: Hebrew and Aramaic NT: Greek

Bilingual Hebrew not understood (except perhaps in reading) Aramaic Greek (for cross-cultural communication, like English today, French in the past)

English not from Latin Hypothetical “Pro-Indo-European” language Romance: Latin Germanic: English Old Greek Sanskrit: Iranian Hebrew from a different family: “Semitic”

Proto-Indo-European Old Greek Romance Germanic Sanskrit Latin English Koine Iranian