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Originally Posted by Sean
No, the gospels and the epistles were all written in Greek. It was the language of the day and forced upon the people for hundreds of years(since Alexander the Great). It is like the African Americans today, do you know of one African American that had ancestors in slavery,being brought here, and after 200 years,the kids still speak any of the African dialects? Even one sentence?
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Originally Posted by Sean
FYI....The "Hebrew roots" movement is trying to push that Aramaic concept, but it is false.....BTW Aramaic is not at all like ancient Hebrew.
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Um, did you see the quote from Josephus? He was a major 1st century Jewish Historian and he writes flatly that Greek was not commonly spoken by Jews in the first century, that in fact it was a rarity.
And you offer no proof for your disagreement. But anyway, here are some biblical examples:
John 20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
Acts 21:37-40
Paul Speaks to the Crowd
37 As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”
“Do you speak Greek?” he replied. 38 “Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”
39 Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”
40 After receiving the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in
Aramaic
22 1 “Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense.”
2 When they heard him speak to them in
Aramaic, they became very quiet.
(Notice the Commander seems surprised that Paul spoke Greek, and that Paul addressed the crowd in Aramaic. This occurred in Jerusalem)
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