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About Luke 16:19-31 II century interpolation
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Innoire Wrote:Shlama,

In my opinion The New Testament books was written in two language:

1.Greek (Koine):

Mark, Luke, John, Paul's letters (excepting "Hebrews"), Peter's letters, and Revelation

2.Hebrew (Neo-Hebrew: a kind of Hebrew+Aramaic mixture)

Matthew, Hebrews, Jude, Jacob
You are paying far too much attention to history and not enough to linguistics. Some of the books you have assigned to Greek (such as Revelation, John, and Mark) have higher concentrations of semiticisms than some of the ones you assign to Hebrew (Hebrews and Matthew, especially).

Another thing, poetry and idiom are not necessarily indicative of an original. Nehemiah Gordon has tried to defend the originality of the Shem Tov on the same grounds, but his case will not hold water. As Howard pointed out in his book about said text, this could just as easily be explained by redaction or careful translation. A person translating from Greek into Hebrew or Aramaic would be able to insert puns, and the idioms would already be there, since Koine was heavily influenced by semitic languages, and since the author, no matter what language he wrote in, was probably most familiar with Aramaic.
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Re: About Luke 16:19-31 II century interpolation - by Dawid - 05-20-2010, 05:32 PM

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