Greek economy

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Alkibiádēs said:

Esiar said:
I know barely anything about Greece. It just reminds me of Greek, which I know is the language most of the New Testament was written in. And I want to learn the languages because it interests me. That's it.

The New Testament is written in very poor koinè, most likely because it was their second language. A lot of the sentences come across as semitic which suggests that they spoke Aramaic in their daily life.

From a literary point of view the New Testament is garbage and not worth reading. Read the Illiad instead, it's in classical Attic with a dactylic hexameter.

The NT was written in the most common form at the time. It was not intended to be a literarry classic, but rather something as many people as possible could understand.

Also, at the time the NT was written the "Classic" greek was pretty much dead and only used in academic circles. It would be like comparing Pilgrims Progress with Harry Potter (similar time gap).   Or comparing Dante with modern Italian literatue.