Did Jesus speak Aramaic ?

[Lewis]

Did Jesus speak Aramaic ?

Jesus and Aramaic

Jesus' spoke Aramaic, the common language of Galilee during his lifetime. Aramaic was an ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew much as French is related to Spanish or as Cantonese is related to Mandarin. (Thanks to Prof. Zev bar-Lev for help with these analogies.) Though Jews had once spoken Hebrew as their primary language, this changed when Israel was overthrown, first by the Assyrians in the eight-century B.C. and then by the Babylonians in the sixth-century B.C. By the time of Jesus Aramaic was so common among Jews that the reading of the Hebrew Scripture in the synagogue was accompanied by translation into Aramaic. (For a helpful overview of Aramaic, see the "Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon" website of Hebrew Union College.)
http://markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resour ... nguage.htm

 

[William Putnam]

Did Jesus speak Aramaic ?

Jesus and Aramaic

Jesus' spoke Aramaic, the common language of Galilee during his lifetime. Aramaic was an ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew much as French is related to Spanish or as Cantonese is related to Mandarin. (Thanks to Prof. Zev bar-Lev for help with these analogies.) Though Jews had once spoken Hebrew as their primary language, this changed when Israel was overthrown, first by the Assyrians in the eight-century B.C. and then by the Babylonians in the sixth-century B.C. By the time of Jesus Aramaic was so common among Jews that the reading of the Hebrew Scripture in the synagogue was accompanied by translation into Aramaic. (For a helpful overview of Aramaic, see the "Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon" website of Hebrew Union College.)
http://markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resour ... nguage.htm

Which has me recall what Christ had to say in Matthew 16:18 -

"...You are Kepha and upon this kepha I will build my church..."

(There not being gender renderings of the Aramaic word for "rock" as there is in the Koine Greek.) :-D

God bless,

PAX

Bill+†+



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