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Greek origins of Christian scriptures [was Re: Recent history of vi]

From Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject Greek origins of Christian scriptures [was Re: Recent history of vi]
Followup-To alt.folklore.computers
Date 2025-12-07 18:17 -0500
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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References (7 earlier) <slrn10jb7eb.17aag.als@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de> <mpm0h0Fi256U3@mid.individual.net> <IkkZQ.697$k6W8.76@fx34.iad> <10h4noh$3n4no$4@dont-email.me> <slrn10jbtsk.1c8f5.als@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de>

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Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> writes:

> The bible was not written in Latin because that was the language of an
> educated European, it was written in Latin because that was the language
> the clergy (from the lowest monk to the pope) learned and spoke and it
> conventiently was a language that most of the people didn't speak, so
> they needed the clergy as "interpreters".

Oh, wrong on so many planes.

The Christian part of "the Bible" (which in English subsumes both Hebrew and
Aramaic texts inherited from the Jews, and Greek originals written beginning
c. 70CE about an Aramaic speaking individual from Judaea, using stories
borrowed from various West Asian inspired "mystery" religions) was *translated*
into Latin in the 4th Century CE *because that was the language of the populace
of western Europe*.

This translation was made not to *obscure* but to *illuminate* the scriptures
for people who could not read the original Greek.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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