Semi OT: Strange Coincedence?

[Agrajag]

HoneyBadger said:
If I remember correctly, the Bible was originally written something like this:

grammarshoddymyconsideringandwithitofsense
seeifyoucangetitallespeciallysincetherearenoperiod stomake
sentencesimplefairlythisisheredemonstrateto

I might be thinking of another ancient language, but I believe that's the structure used, bottom to top, following the sentence across the page. Ofcourse, the original old testiment could have been written in several different languages.

Right to Left is obvious, since Hebrew is written RTL.
I'm not sure about bottom to top though.

Also, AFAIK most of the bible was written in (ancient) hebrew, and a smaller portion of it an Aramian (or however you spell that in English :X)

[Archonsod]

I thought the Torah was written in Hebrew, and then the Bible was done in Greek?

[AStott]

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew (and a couple parts in Aramaic). Hebrew is written left-to-right, top-to-bottom.

The New Testament was written in Greek. Greek is written left-to-right, top-to-bottom. This was originally written without spaces, and without punctuation (and I think in all capital letters, though I'm not 100% sure).

The Septuagint was a translation of the Old Testament into Greek done prior to the writing of the New Testament.