Contributions chiefly from Papyri and Inscriptions to the History of the Language, Literature, and Religion of Hellenistic Judaism and Primitive Christianity

by Adolf Deissmann

• Biblical Studies & Commentaries

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Published: 2004

Publisher's Description

These seminal essays investigate material from papyri and inscriptions in order to gain insight regarding the language and literature of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. Included in the essays is Deissmann's famous distinction between letters and epistles. Additionally, the collection includes his attack on the notion that biblical Greek was a sacred language. Deissmann shows, convincingly, that biblical Greek is vernacular Greek.