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Do Greek Christians read the New Testament in the original?

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Notice I said hear because other than religious people or people attending church and carrying a synopsis to follow the liturgy Greeks don't usually read the New Testament. read more

Notice I said hear because other than religious people or people attending church and carrying a synopsis to follow the liturgy Greeks don't usually read the New Testament. Whenever we read it's the original text in the Koine form of Greek that is not Classical Greek and that had a vocabulary and pronunciation very-very similar to Modern Greek. read more

Go to any Greek Orthodox Christian monastery (say Elder Ephraim’s in Arizona or upstate New York) or Mt Athos in Greece, and you will be certain to hear the Greek texts from the New Testament read during the Scripture reading (Epistles could be translated from Hebrew). read more

As a professor of Greek and New Testament at SAGU, I naturally champion the study of Biblical languages so here are 7 reasons why the original Biblical languages hold great promise for those who consecrate their time and effort to learn them. read more

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