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Meanings of hellenistic greek in English

Russian
койне
Portuguese
grego bíblico
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coine
Catalan
grec koiné

Common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world.

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      Examples for "alexandrian dialect"
      Examples for "alexandrian dialect"
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      Why not download an app on Attic Greek prose translation?
      The Guardian
      2
      This form was common in Attic Greek,]
      The Bride of the Nile — Volume 04
      3
      He reads a book as he walks, and when he bumps into you, he always exculpates himself in Attic Greek.
      Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 / Little J...
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      They all consorted together, talking various dialects of Aeolic, Ionian, Attic Greek, and so forth, which were plainly not intelligible to each other.
      Adventures Among Books
      5
      "You are the Sappho of our day, and therefore you should write in the ancient Aeolian dialect and not Attic Greek."
      The Emperor — Volume 02
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      They also knew their history -Biblical , Greek, Roman, European, and American.
      The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
      1
      Upon this Howell read in New Testament Greek another utterly irrelevant passage.
      Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
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      It is Jesus who is the Word of God and there is nothing holy about the New Testament Greek.
      A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
      3
      At the same time I entered the Divinity School of Yale University, taking studies in Hebrew, New Testament Greek and Archæology.
      From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine
      Usage of hellenistic greek in English
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      Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures and Hellenistic Greek, University of Michigan
      Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs
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      In 1891 he was transferred to the chair of Hellenistic Greek, Payne Theological Seminary.
      Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
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      He spent a part of the following year in Oberlin Theological Seminary in special study of the Semitic languages and Hellenistic Greek.
      Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
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      One frequently repeated motto was in a sort of Hebraised Hellenistic Greek, and suggested the most terrible daemon-evocations of the Alexandrian decadence:
      The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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      But the language of the Hebrew, the idiom of the Hellenistic Greek, lent themselves with a curious felicity to the purposes of translation.
      Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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      I myself came to it with some prejudice; in complete ignorance of Hebrew, and with no more than the usual amount of Hellenistic Greek.
      On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of ...