Why was the Bible translated from Hebrew to Greek?

Answer 1

* Only the New Testament is written in Greek. The Old Testament is in Hebrew. And the reason for both is that they were the main language spoken in the area they were written in at the time. * The Old Testament was written almost entirely in Hebrew. However, Hebrew eventually fell out of use for everyday purposes, with the Palestinian Jews speaking Aramaic and the Jews of the diaspora speaking Greek. During the early second century BCE, a Greek translation, known as the Septuagint (or LXX for short), was created for use by the diaspora Jews. However, the Palestinian Jews continued to use the Hebrew Bible.

The New Testament was originally written in Greek because Alexander compelled the people in the countries he conquered to speak Greek rather than their own language. All Hellenized countries spoke Greek, and anybody wanting to deal with them had to know Greek. It was thus the common language at that time, so many of the early Christians and potential converts spoke Greek.

* The other reason the Bible was written in Greek was because it was a very precise language with five tenses to enable narrow definitions and the explanation of abstract concepts, especially spiritual and relational, which in other languages such as English just cannot be easily done. (That is one of the reasons for the many translations of the Bible.)

Answer 2

The old testament is written in hebrew for the jews, but the new testament is written in the early times in Greek, which was later translated to all languages.

But now the geek language is more or less a dead language, so there are errors in it. Another reason being there were Greks at that time like Luke.

Answer 3

The Bible was not originally written in Latin. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew (with some Aramaic) and the New Testament was written in Greek. Eventually the Bible was translated into Latin, then into English and other languages.

Answer 4

All the "Old Testament" was written and compiled by Jews, members of the nation "entrusted with the sacred pronouncements of God" (Romans 3:1, 2) and they lived over a period of 1,100 years, from the 16th to the 5th century B.C.E. During the period when they were written, 1500 to 500 years before Jesus, the writers, and their audience, for the most part, spoke Hebrew and Aramaic, so the Bible was written in those languages.

The "New Testament"(Aside from Matthew, which was written originally in Hebrew),was written in Koine Greek, after Jesus had died, because it was the most universally known language of the day, the 'common' Greek, and the writers of the Christian Scriptures were concerned with getting their message across with understanding to as many people as possible, from many cultures.(Matthew 24:14)(Matthew 28:19&20)

Answer 5

Although the everyday language of the Palestinian Jews was Aramaic, the New Testament was written in Greek because it was directed at a Greek-speaking audience. Christianity had, by and large, failed to take hold among the Palestinian Jews.

Answer 6

A:Greek Koine, the dialect used in all four New Testament gospels was the lingua franca of most of the Near East, apart from the Palestinian Jews. Although we know little about where the gospels were actually written, we can be certain they were written in the Near East, for Near Eastern audiences. In fact the Christian Church was almost absent from the western part of the Roman Empire, apart from Rome itself, until the latter part of the third century.

Answer 7

When Alexander the great conquered Egypt he compelled everyone to speak in Greek instead of their own native language. This meant that only the Hebrew priests knew Hebrew but everyone else couldn't understand it and it was a dead language, much like the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church with Latin today. Accordingly, the Hebrew Bible was translated by Ptolomey in Egypt about 260BC so that Greeks could understand it. It is known as the Septuagint.

Answer 8

Greek was considered to be the language of educated people inthe Roman Empire, just like latin was the language of educated people in the Middle Ages.