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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3749662, member: 57463&quot;]I used to believe in the Koine New Testament. Unless you can provide some other scholarship, what we call the Greek New Testament is recreated backwards from modern texts and translated by scholars into Koine Greek, as it was used at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a point of Biblical scholarship way deeper than I care to dive that the &quot;oldest&quot; manuscripts are not theologically correct and that more &quot;recent&quot; texts are true copies of the best sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, I bought a Koine New Testament when I was teaching myself ancient Greek in support of numismatics. It never occured to me then that the work was a recreation, but so it seems.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The translation was largely the work of Jerome who in 382 had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina(&quot;Old Latin&quot;) Gospels then in use by the Roman Church. Jerome, on his own initiative, extended this work of revision and translation to include most of the books of the Bible; and once published, the new version became widely adopted; and over succeeding centuries eventually eclipsed the <i>Vetus Latina</i>, so that by the 13th century it had taken over from the former version the appellation of <i>versio vulgata</i> (the &quot;version commonly used&quot;) or <i>vulgata</i> for short.&quot; -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There was no such thing as a Greek Bible, except, of course, among the modern Greeks... But in ancient times, their official language was Latin. They called themselves &quot;Romans&quot; right up to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. (See: &quot;What (if Anything) is a Byzantine?&quot; here:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.romanity.org/htm/fox.01.en.what_if_anything_is_a_byzantine.01.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.romanity.org/htm/fox.01.en.what_if_anything_is_a_byzantine.01.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.romanity.org/htm/fox.01.en.what_if_anything_is_a_byzantine.01.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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