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You do not specify which Canon, you are not sure which is "the last book", but you know that it "was written around within 75 years of the crucifixion".
Which canon? How about the "current" one, which is what I enclosed in my post? Current, you know, "The one we use today." This was set at the Council of Nicea. And no I'm not sure which was the last book but textual criticism says it was most likely John or Revelation. Either way, they were written fairly close to the event. The remainder of the NT was penned prior to 70AD by all indicators.
You say nothing about the extent to which this 'probable' book of your unspecified Canon is accurately represented by current textual variants.
Because we are discussing dating. I picked John due to the massive textual variants from the Synoptic gospels and the obvious Hellenistic influences in chapter one.
Are you referring to the Alexandrian, Byzantine, or Western textual tradition, or do you know?
I'm referring to the Koine textual tradition as it arose from Attic-Ionic Greek. I have no idea what you are referring to.
When you speak of an "original form" are you referring to a single textual form, or do you know?
The original form was likely oral. But yes "original" in its written form in Koine, a single textual form. Note: there are a few exceptions, yet most of these exceptions point to an earlier dating, not later. Example of conspicous later insertions include references to OT prophecy.
When you say Greek "was perhaps it's original form, due to the Koine", are you asserting that some 4th century Koine translation of some unspecified portion of some undefined Canon is probative of anything?
Could you be more specific?
It is clearly not even 3rd century Koine. Do your homework. Here if you are lazy:
I have 15 or so books on this subject right across the room, but if you’d like to read for yourself:
"The New Testament, except for Luke, was written in about as demotic a language as one could get, and broke rule after rule of the prescriptionist Atticizers, both in vocabulary and grammar (Browning esp. 44-50), but because they were canonized texts, they had to stand "as is." Browning mentions in a footnote (47-48) the following:
"When bishop Triphyllios of Ledra, a learned man and author of a commentary on the Song of Solomon, during a service substituted skimpouV for krabbatoV in the Gospel passage ‘Take up they bed and walk’, his Cypriot colleague St. Spyridon of Trimithus, who had taken part in the Council of Nicæa, rebuked him with the words, ‘Are you so much better than Him who said krabbatoV that you are ashamed to use His words? (Sozomenos, Hist. Eccles. 1.11)."
From
http://humanities.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/reports/greek.html
Clearly, we can see that even before the Council of Nicea, the texts were somewhat canonized by the followers, imperfections and all. The
FACT is that the
EARLY authors did not give into to scholarly temptations to submerge their work in Attic morphology and dialect indicates a few things: 1) it was written by less educated people, or 2) it was written in a hurry. Probably both. It is most likely not the work of fabricators who would have used a different tone and voice in their writing, and would have taken time to get it right. On top of all that, we have splashes of Aramaic in the text also lending aid to the dating process.
Get over yourself.
Is "within a century or so" the same as "around within 75 years?
Do I need to do your math for you? Let's see. Century = 100 years. I typed around 75 years. What do you think?
On what basis do you assert that Paul, Luke, and the Deuteropauline works were written by "undoubtedly ... less educated writers"?
See the above quote. Luke may have been an exception, as was the author of John and Revelation. The author of Hebrews is an educated Jewish leader, and seemed to have his Greek down pat too. Paul a Roman citizen uses a commoner dialect in his letters, naturally. We can't make a determination as to his intelligence, but supposedly he was an educated in Jewish law. The author of Mark is clearly not educated.
Be less deserving.
Get over yourself.
