Why isnt the NT Bible written in a semitic language like Hebrew, Aramaic or Arabic like other divine books ?

Question

The New Testament is written in Greek.......


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Answer 1

the tao te ching is in my opinion more thought provoking than the abrahamic deities books and its in chinese what about hindu scriptures? nordic scriptures? divine books come in many languages you deluded nut

Answer 2

Why is the internet in English? It is the dominant language today, just as Greek was at the time the books of the bible were written. Also, the individual books were probably written and copied in several languages, but the oldest collection of these books is in Greek because (and this is like, history 101 or something) Emporer Constantine was the first governmental head to make Christianity the official state religion.

Answer 3

First. None of the divine books are written in Arabic.

Second. Greek was the "Educated Man's" language and the common language after Alexander the Great conquered all the way to India. They enforced it and then it just became the common language of the educated... sort of like English in the 19th and 20th century under Great Britain, they controlled large areas and it became the language of the educated and the language of common understanding.

I believe you missed Assyrian too. I believe that Daniel 5 the letter from Nebuchadnezzar was originally written in the language of Babylon at that time.

Answer 4

The New Testament was written some in Aramaic, and translated to Greek later. Does it make a difference?

Answer 5

Because the educated residents of that part of the world in the first century that created christianity spoke and wrote in greek.

The NT books were all written in greek. There is no evidence in the surviving manuscripts of a translation from aramaic to greek.

Answer 6

The New Testament accounts of the life of Christ were written by eyewitnesses or by people relating the accounts of the eyewitnesses of the actual events. John wrote, "what we have seen and heard [concerning Christ, we proclaim to you also." Peter stated that he and his associates were "eyewitnesses of His majesty." Luke claimed that his gospel was based on accounts compiled from eyewitnesses. In a court of law, eyewitness testimony is the most reliable kind.

These eyewitnesses spoke and wrote in the Greek language. Therefore, the Greek language is the most authentic.

If one concludes that the New Testament documents are historically reliable, it stands to reason that he should seriously consider the message they present. In the Old Testament and the New, the message of the Bible is the message of Jesus Christ. And He offers an abundant and eternal life to anyone who will consider and respond to His claims: "I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life...and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Answer 7

Because Greek was the universal language of the time. Relatively very few people knew Hebrew, but everyone knew Greek. By writing the gospels in Greek, the indication was that Christ was for all humanity, not just for the Jewish people.

Answer 8

The OT and the NT do not have the same authors, which is why they are written in different languages.
The Torah was dictated by G-d to Moses, whereas the NT was written by the followers of Jesus long after his death.

Answer 9

I think that what you are getting at is that the NT was written way after Jesus walked the earth right?

Are you excluding the gnostic writings like the dead sea scrolls (Hebrew)? Or haven't you done your homework?

I point this out more to illuminate your point than to counter it. The NT was not written by eyewitnesses but was written WAY after the fact. (80 to 300 years later)

For bwlobo:

"In a court of law, eyewitness testimony is the most reliable kind."

You are not talking about eyewitness testimony. In a court of law, what you are talking about is called hearsay and it is inadmissible.

Answer 10

The Tanakh (what Christians call the previous testomony) became into written in Hebrew in view that became into the language of its keepers. Then Christianity and Islam later got here alongside, in accordance with that comparable faith -- so it is not precisely astonishing that those activities got here approximately in a similar section. it could be quite unusual if Christianity arose in, say, Chile.

Answer 11

Coz they spoke mostly greek in the area at the time and they wanted most people to understand it, so they wrote it in the "international" language of the time, Much like today English is.

And by the way, Arabic (as in the Qur'an) didn't even EXIST at the time of Jesus...