{"slug": "koine-greek", "label": "Koine Greek", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107358", "qid": "Q107358", "description": "common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-249, 1859], "span_label": ["250 BCE", "1859 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}], "related": [{"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ptolemy-ii-philadelphus", "label": "Ptolemy II Philadelphus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jew", "label": "Jew", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ptolemy-iii-euergetes", "label": "Ptolemy III Euergetes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pannonia", "label": "Pannonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "marcus-aurelius", "label": "Marcus Aurelius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sirmium", "label": "Sirmium", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saint-petersburg", "label": "Saint Petersburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexander-ii-of-russia", "label": "Alexander II of Russia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-testament", "label": "New Testament", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -249, "year_label": "250 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "According to the Letter of Aristeas, Ptolemy II invited the Jewish residents of Alexandria to have their torah translated into Greek. Because around seventy translators are used to achieve this, the translation is known as the Septuagint.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278897656#Egypt", "title": "250 BC", "revid": 1278897656, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -237, "year_label": "238 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Decree of Canopus, also called \"Table of Tanis\", is a memorial stone promulgated by an assemblage of priests in honour of Ptolemy III Euergetes and his consort Berenice. The decree, written in Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphs is an ancient bilingual Egyptian decree that provides a key for deciphering hieroglyphic and the simpler demotic scripts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342094383#Egypt", "title": "238 BC", "revid": 1342094383, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": 170, "year_label": "170 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in Sirmium (Pannonia) his first of 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371303023#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 170", "revid": 1371303023, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 300, "year_label": "300 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Possible date of the Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 and Codex Sinaiticus, manuscripts of the Bible written in Greek.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361492719#Religion", "title": "300", "revid": 1361492719, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1567, "year_label": "1567 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – Bible translations into Welsh: The New Testament is first published in Welsh, in William Salesbury's translation from the Greek.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362147494#October–December", "title": "1567", "revid": 1362147494, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 4", "text": "February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt and arranges for its presentation to his patron, Tsar Alexander II of Russia at Saint Petersburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#January–March", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}