Editing New Testament (section)

=== Style ===
The style of [[Koine Greek]] in which the New Testament is written differs from the general Koine Greek used by Greek writers of the same era, a difference that some scholars have explained by the fact that the authors of the New Testament, nearly all Jews and deeply familiar with the [[Septuagint]], wrote in a Jewish-Greek dialect strongly influenced by Aramaic and Hebrew{{sfn|Machen|1998|p=5}} (see [[Jewish Koine Greek]], related to the [[Septuagint#Language|Greek of the Septuagint]]). But other scholars say that this view is arrived at by comparing the linguistic style of the New Testament to the preserved writings of the literary men of the era, who imitated the style of the great Attic texts and as a result did not reflect the everyday spoken language, so that this difference in style could be explained by the New Testament being written, unlike other preserved literary material of the era, in the Koine Greek spoken in everyday life, in order to appeal to the common people, a style which has also been found in contemporary non-Jewish texts such as private letters, receipts and petitions discovered in Egypt (where the dry air has preserved these documents which, as everyday material not deemed of literary importance, had not been copied by subsequent generations).{{sfn|Machen|1998|p=4}}