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Greek lexicons like BDAG often cite the non-biblical Greek for more evidence on how a given word is used. This is especially important with words that only occur once or twice in the New Testament. These texts are ... often of interest for historical and theological study, in addition to their usefulness in lexical studies. Many of the most important Greek texts for comparative study are available in LDLS:
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Exploring real Greek This section introduces the concepts one step at a time, using real Greek taken mainly from the New Testament. If you are an exploratory, inductive person, you may want to start with this section, then review the material by reading the "Tables and such" section.
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Some scholars have overly stressed Modern Greek's similarity to the millennia-old Greek languages. However, its intelligibility with ancient Greek is a matter of debate. It is claimed that an "educated" speaker of the modern language can read the ancient dialects, but it is not made clear how much of that education consists of exposure to vocabulary and grammar obsolete to normal communication. Still, Koin�, an older version of Greek originally used to write the New Testament and the Septuagint, is easily understood by modern speakers.
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There are over 5000 handwritten manuscripts covering portions of the Greek New Testament. These manuscripts often vary from each other. Most of these variants are small – minor differences in spelling or word order, but some are significant. One of the main tools that text critics use to examine the evidence for the different readings is called a critical apparatus. These tell what manuscripts support what variant readings.
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