WI: The Gospels Written In Latin (And in Rome) Instead Of Greek

What instead of being written in the Near East in Koine Greek, the Gospels had been written a few years later by Romans in Rome and other parts of Italy and the surrounding areas?

Two questions;

1)How would Christianity up to this point have to be different for this to happen?

1)How would Christianity develop after this?
 
It's not difficult to imagine such a scenario--there was a Christian community in Rome in the 50s AD (indeed, St. Paul's longest epistle is addressed to them). It's not a big leap to imagine one of the Roman Christians being literate and deciding to put to ink an account of the life of Christ. Especially given Peter's martyrdom there--though, given that the Gospel according to Mark is traditionally held to be based on Peter's testimony as well, as a pious man I would hold that a Gospel written in Rome would be very similar to the Gospel according to Mark.
 
One obvious issue is that there doesn't seem to have been a standardized Latin version of the Hebrew Bible. The Septuagint had been around for a while and was more or less considered the standard version of the Bible in Greek, which is why it's used extensively in the New Testament (anytime anyone in the New Testament quotes the Old Testament, they are using the Septuagint version). Without a standard translation, composing the Gospels will be much tougher, as not only would the writer basically have to do a translation on the fly (and I doubt there were that many literate individuals fluent in both Hebrew in Latin amongst the early Christians) and the end result would be much less recognizable to a broader audience.

Another concern is proliferation. As said, there was an independent Christian community in Rome, but most of the rest of the early Christian churches that we know of are in Greek-speaking areas (like the audiences of the rest of Paul's epistles, the churches of Revelation, etc.). In particular, Alexandria was enormously significant in copying and spreading the Gospels. Even if there was a Latin Gospel (and there might have been at some point; we know there were quite a few early Christian texts floating around that we no longer have) it's unlikely to propagate as fast given the smaller potential audience. Even if somehow the OTL Gospels don't pop up, other Greek gospels probably will, and they will have a leg up.

But suppose a Latin Gospel somehow takes root and flourishes, what then? One possible change is that Paul is probably a less influential figure. While his letter to the Romans is important for its place in Christian theology, it was written in Greek, and to an already developed community (unlike the rest of his epistles, which are generally aimed at churches that he directly helped found). While Paul was traditionally martyred there along with Peter, his direct connection with the church in Rome is probably less theologically significant than his effects on his followers in the East. Given that these Gospels would presumably be the centerpiece of some sort of Latin Bible, that means that Paul's writings (all in Greek) would probably be left out, and his followers would be more marginalized (so probably no Acts of the Apostles in this edition).
 
I suspect it would lead to an earlier Roman:Greek fissure in the church. How the earlier syncretism between formal/civil Roman and apocalyptic Christianity would develop is interesting.
 
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