Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Ancient Rise of Koine Greek (Jellicoe)

"Already in the Anabasis of Xenophon the intrusion of elements foreign to Attic is discernible, and as time went on the Koine rather than its parent was adopted by such writers as Polybius, Strabo, Philo, Josephus, and Plutarch" (Sidney Jellicoe, The Septuagint and Modern Study, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968, p. 330).

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