Practice question · Fill in the blanks
Complete the statement about the language of the age.
______, a simplified common Greek, became the working language from Marseille to the Hindu Kush; centuries later the ______ would be written in it.
Word bank: Koine · New Testament · Linear B · Iliad
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- A simplified common dialect spread with the administration.
- It remained the shared language of the eastern Mediterranean for centuries.
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Koine, a simplified common Greek, became the working language from Marseille to the Hindu Kush; centuries later the New Testament would be written in it.
Why
When Paul wrote to Greek-speaking congregations across the Roman east, he was writing in Alexander’s administrative afterglow, a lingua franca created by conquest and kept by convenience.
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