Re: Conlang Website

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > Original Greek? <puzzled look> Are modern translations based on the
> > Greek versions instead of the Dead Sea scrolls...? I don't remember
> > much from my required religion classes in high school but I would've
> > thought ancient Hebrew or Aramaic or Latin would have been more
> > helpful....
>
> The Dead Sea Scrolls only contain the Old Testament.
>
> The New Testament originals are in Greek. (Some of the gospels were
> originally written in Hebrew, but these are long since lost.)
Ah!  <enlightened look>  I see now.  I'm so used to thinking of "the
Bible" as a single collection that I often forget that the individual
documents were often written many years distant from each other....

YHL