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Originally Posted by HarryT
I can read it, as can many others. Koine Greek is a simple language to learn; the NT uses a small vocabulary and the gospels especially are deliberately straightforward language. There's really little reason not to learn it if it interests you to do so. You can pick up the basics in a few weeks.
BTW, which three "ancient manuscripts" are you specifically referring to? This one, the Codex Vaticanus (I assume?), and what else? There are at least two other "complete" NTs from the 5th century, and literally hundreds of more fragmentary documents. If you get a decent Greek NT (the "standard" one used by pretty much all scholars is the "UBS4" one), it will show all the variants and tell you which manuscripts contain what. There are more variations than there are words in the NT, as a matter of interest!
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I am sure you can read the words assuming the meaning hasn't changed in the intervening time and you can separate them for the next word. It is tricky of course.
Here is a quote from Smith's dictionary.
(1) the Alexandrian (codex Alexandrinus, marked A), so named because it was found in Alexandria in Egypt, in 1628. It date back to a.d. 350, and is now in the British Museum.
(2) The Vatican (codex Vaticanus, B), named from the Vatican library at Rome, where it is kept. Its date is a.d. 300 to 325.
(3) The Sinaitic (codex Sinaiticus) so called from the convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, there it was discovered by or Tichendorf in 1844. It is now at St. Petersburg Russia. This is one of the earliest best of all the manuscripts.
— Smith's Bible Dictionary
The current locations may have changed. There are many more of the New testament but these are mostly complete Bibles of both old and new. Note that none are in Hebrew, the oldest Hebrew we have is no older than the tenth century.
Dale