text: The term "Koinê" for the "dialect" of the NT is accurate, but misleading. It's the same as Attic Greek, with just a small number of changes, here and there, in spelling, morphology and syntax. Then there are a few traces of Hebrew or Aramaic expression, "semitisms," esp. imitating the great Jewish Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that is the foundation of Catholics' Old Testament, viz. the Septuagint. Also, the NT authors each has his own style, Mark, John and Revelation being pretty simple, but Hebrews and the deutero-Pauline Ephesians and Colossians being more complicated and affected (and ugly IMHO; Oscar Wilde said somewhere, "One of the principal arguments against Christianity is the style of St. Paul," and I suspect he meant Eph and Col).
  
  My degrees are in classics, but my interests are quite theological, e.g. regarding the Near Eastern and Greek pantheons. Lately I'm studying the development of the cult of Yahweh, or better (I think), Yahûh (Yahoo!).