Koine Greek

Koine Greek is the popular form of Greek which emerged in post-Classical antiquity] (c.300 BCE–300 CE). Other names are Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Patristic, Common, Biblical or New Testament Greek. Original names were koine, Hellenic, Alexandrian and Macedonian (Macedonic); all on the contrast to Attic dialect. Koine was the first common supra-regional dialect in Greece and came to serve as a lingua franca for the eastern Mediterranean and ancient Near East throughout the Roman period. It was also the original language of the New Testament of the Christian Bible and of the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures). Koine is the main ancestor of modern Greek.
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