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Excerpt from The Style and Literary Method of Luke
Tee recent linguistic study of the New Testament has been following two lines, both of which have made such terms as Biblical Greek, the language of the New Testament, seem inappropriate. On the one hand the several canonical writers have come to be treated as individual authors, each pos sessing his own characteristics of style and diction. It has been recognized that each wrote with a great degree of freedom and independence and that their present association in the New Testament is due to other causes than similarity in language. We may speak of the style of Luke or the vocabulary of Paul, but if we would include in a grammar or lexicon all the New Testament phenomena, we must remember that we are dealing with a collection of writers, not with a homogeneous volume.
In another direction the category of New Testament Greek has been broken down by the comparison of secular contemporary writings. Especially the study of the papyri has shown that the early Christians were not using a special language of the Holy Ghost, but an idiom which, apart from personal idiosyncrasies and from the special Christian and Semitic in?uences under which they wrote, was the common language of the Roman empire. Even the more formal and literary productions of the age are not to be excluded from comparison, since they also embody in varying degree the same ordinary language.
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