Gryllus Maior
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Plenty of interaction between the two in later antiquity (which includes the "Biblical Koine"):
The changes of Greek during the Roman period along the aforementioned two major trends of diachronic development and conservatism resulted in the three varieties of Greek employed in Late Antiquity prose: (a) low register Koine, used in private texts (e.g. epistolography) and some literature (e.g. early Christian writings); (b) high-register Koine, used in official inscriptions and literature (e.g. by Plutarch); (c) Atticism (employed by rhetors, e.g. Aelius Aristides and Lucian). However, there is a mutual influence between the higher registers, and thus a compromise between 'high-register' Koine and Atticism is to be observed."
--Late Antiquity Prose in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, p. 317.
Particularly, the book of Acts, 2 Peter and Hebrews are written in higher register Koine, and one finds Atticisms in them...
The changes of Greek during the Roman period along the aforementioned two major trends of diachronic development and conservatism resulted in the three varieties of Greek employed in Late Antiquity prose: (a) low register Koine, used in private texts (e.g. epistolography) and some literature (e.g. early Christian writings); (b) high-register Koine, used in official inscriptions and literature (e.g. by Plutarch); (c) Atticism (employed by rhetors, e.g. Aelius Aristides and Lucian). However, there is a mutual influence between the higher registers, and thus a compromise between 'high-register' Koine and Atticism is to be observed."
--Late Antiquity Prose in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, p. 317.
Particularly, the book of Acts, 2 Peter and Hebrews are written in higher register Koine, and one finds Atticisms in them...