Dunno if you read, a couple of months ago, of some two-millennia-old Biblical fragments recently discovered in caves in the Judean deaert. One of them (Zechariah 8:16-17) was … except for the Tetragrammaton … written in Greek.Greek was the lingua franca of the Mediterranean world. Rome was the lergest Greek-speaking city in that world. Non-Greek languages survived in circumstances of
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