Subject: Re: tc-list Why Not Latin?

From: "Kevin W. Woodruff" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:44:40 -0500

Greek was the lingua franca of the masses until the 3rd century A.D. Latin
did not supplant it until later. Polybius, Josephus, the Early church
Fathers all used Koine Greek until the time of Tertullian who was the first
major Church Father to write in Latin

At 12:24 PM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>1. Thank you for your thoughtful, interesting, and valuable responses to my
>January query on cruxes.  They are most helpful to me.
>
>2. Please humor me as I ask another undergraduate-like question:  If, as I've
>read, "Mark" was written ca. 70 CE in Rome to Roman Christians, and if textual
>studies suggest that the author knew Latin, why would it not have been written
>in Latin rather than in Greek?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Robert A. White
>English Department
>The Citadel
>
>

Kevin W. Woodruff, M.Div.
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