why was the Old testament written in Hebrew and the New testament in Greek?

Answer 1

The Torah (Old Testament) was written a thousand years before the New Testament. Hebrew was considered a sacred language for the Bible only -- the spoken language was Aramaic.

By the time of the New Testament, Greek was the preferred language.
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Answer 2

The Old Testament,written almost entirely in the Hebrew language between 1200 and 100 BC, the Old Testament (also called the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh) is an account of God's dealings with the Hebrews as his chosen people. Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible.The designations “Old” and “New” seem to have been adopted after c.A.D. 200 to distinguish the books of the Mosaic covenant and those of the “new” covenant in Christ. New Testament writers, however, simply call the Old Testament the “Scriptures.”
The New Testament was written in Greek, think of who Paul was: the "Apostle to the Gentiles". Obviously he was writing to Greek speaking people, so he would write to them in Greek.

Answer 3

Because the Old Testament was written for Jews, who spoke Hebrew, and the New Testament was written by mainly Greek speakers who weren't just writing for Jews. Greek was a "prestige language", like English is today. Educated people wound up speaking it because...everybody spoke it. Everybody wanted to speak it to be able to communicate in a common language. Hebrew had a limited number of speakers and I'm sure most of them learned Greek if they got the chance. It just made things easier.

It's all about the audience.

Answer 4

The old testament is the history and bloodline of the Jews. Hebrew and chaldean are their languages. - enough said

The new testament was written in Greek, because of two reasons: 1. They were very interested in all religions at the time
2. The Jewish scribes were not allowed to use the Sanhedrin Ink to write about someone who said so many bad things about the Jewish leadership (church-- Just kidding.
3. The Greek language was the main common language among the Jews and Gentiles (who had just become Christians) in that area at that time in history. You don't waste your time writing a book unless you know you have an interested audience, and then you write it in a language they understand.

added: Is "alberto" a Muslim in disguise?

Answer 5

The Bible was first written in Hebrew, and then translated into Aramaic, then Greek, then Latin and finally to English. When translated from one language to another footnotes were added. The copyists, scribes, and translators would write footnotes in their manuscripts of the Bible which would later be included in the text by other copyists.

Amo 3:1 ¶ Hear this word that Yahweh hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


Amo 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.


Amo 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Jhn 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Yadahiam.

Answer 6

Because the old testament was written in Judea before the Roman conquest of the area. After the Roman invasion, the language of the land became Greek.

At least that's my understanding.

Answer 7

surely, most of the previous testomony is written in Hebrew, no longer Aramaic. in basic terms parts of Daniel are written in Aramaic. you're ultimate that Aramaic and Hebrew are comparable, yet Aramaic is descended from Hebrew, making Hebrew the dominant. Christ spoke aramaic with the aid of fact the easy tongue, even yet it somewhat is obvious Hebrew grew to become into understood through the individuals of that factor (see Acts 22:2) *** have you ever learnt that your links say a similar element i'm asserting, and don't believe you? those links observed that most of the OT grew to become into written in Hebrew, and in basic terms part of Daniel and Ezra are in Aramaic, the greater moderen language.

Answer 8

Hebrew and Greek are "translations". The original manuscript was written in Aramaic.

Answer 9

By the way, Daniel wasn't written in Hebrew. It was written in Aramaic.

Answer 10

ot all NT was written in greek .. the gospel of Matt was written in herbew.