1. The Greek Language

2. 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”

3. Linear B
Classical
Attic (dialect)
Koine
Modern

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

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

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

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