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On Mastering Koine Greek: A Response to Bohlinger and Nguyen

March 9, 2018 by Tavis Bohlinger 7 Comments

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by Christoph Heilig*

Introduction

Two weeks ago, Tavis Bohlinger wrote a blogpost in which he encouraged students and scholars of the New Testament to focus on the “common dialect,” ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος of the Greek language—that is, the Greek spoken roughly between 300 BCE and 300 CE.  In the German-speaking sphere, from which I come, many students of theology still learn “Classical Greek” as it was used between 500 and 300 BCE (well, at least the Attic dialect of that time). [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Ancient languages, Greek, New Testament Tagged With: christoph heilig, Greek, koine, living language, zürich

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