Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::5!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson 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: 07 Dec 2025 18:17:52 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 25 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <10ga6r1$7ph$1@news.misty.com> <10gpatq$jpt$3@news.misty.com> <69334624$0$11430$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10h175s$2b64m$19@dont-email.me> <10h4noh$3n4no$4@dont-email.me> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::5"; logging-data="26835"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78442 alt.folklore.computers:232431 Alexander Schreiber 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