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The NT survives in Greek because it was WRITTEN in Greek. Greek was also the lingua franca of the region and time. Jesus et al (if they existed at all) probably used it more often than Aramaic!

TCY - the period 70-150AD (see your link above) is when the christians were writing the NT documents. There's thus no evidence to suggest they ever contained anything other than "Kyrios" - 'Lord'. Given that one of the ideas that was widespread and prevalent at the time - that the great gods of all religions were in fact one and the same, even if called by a different name, how do you know that they were really referring to Yahweh? Why not Zeus - Jupiter? Jupiter is the same as Dyaus Pitar in India, and so the Indo-European root of Sky Father can be seen. Jove comes from Jovis, which is Jovis Pater, which is the Latin equivalent of Dyaus=Zeus. For Jove being the same name as Yahweh, see this link jupiterisyahweh.tripod.com/ for example.

I know this. And as I've previously mentioned, from the evidence (as shown by Rohl and seemingly several others, from the reference in a Wiki entry), I have previously been of the opinion that Yahweh (the name) was based on Ea (Enki). But Yahweh also seems to turn up as a sperate god, and of course by at least the 9th century or so he had turned into the supreme god for those that believed in him. The name of Zeus/Jupiter/Dyaus Pitar is from the indo-european words for "sky" and "father" - as we've both said. But "the heavens" means "the sky". Heavens above. It's the same thing. The god of the bible is a "heavenly father". Can you say definitely that this god, Zeus/Jupiter originated in the Indo-European world and the god Yahweh originated seperately in the Semitic one, or did the name simply change with language shifts? How is it that Semitic gods and those of Indo-Asian origins, supposedly, so easily mesh in the Assyro-Babylonian legends? What about, for instance, the Brahman hypothesis of Hebrew origins, or alternatively, Frazer's comparative mythology studies showing an African origin for the dying/rising god myths - which could therefore go back up to 70,000 or so years - long enough for the similarites of the Quetzalcoatl legend to Jesus et al to be more than coincidence.

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Zeus appears on the scene pretty much fully formed in the Greek pantheon (much of which can be seen to have been borrowed in from elsewhere, such as the Phoenician {Canaanite/Semitic} myths).