Neither is Koine. Especially if you compare it to Attic.
> How do we know we are not stretching the point?
Some often do stretch the point. Some are, to be blunt, washed in the blood
of the subjunctive mood.
>Was there Koine grammer?
Surely; but again it was much looser than Attic.
> And how do we know this grammer. Did the writers know and use excellent
>grammer, or did we create a grammer to explain what they wrote?
>
As in any language, grammar is deductive. When we learned to speak our
mother tongue we learned inductively and then when we got to school we
learned the rules which had been set out deductively. So it is with koine.
For every rule there is an exception!
>The Barbarian
>
Jim
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Jim West
Adjunct Professor of Bible,
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net