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Sharri14

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I hear he spoke Aramaic.

Being the son of God I am sure he could have spoke any langauge he needed to.
Didn't he have a native language? He was brought up Jewish?

The Old Testmant in Hewbrew and the New Testament in Greek?? :smt017




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Sharri
 
The Old Testmant in Hewbrew and the New Testament in Greek??

Are you suggesting he spoke Greek or some of the apostles did? If so I couldn't really tell you one way or another. I never thought of it. I was aware that the New Testament was claimed to be originally written in Greek? Anyway, it'd be interesting to find out what language the apostles did speak and to get clarification on this. Did the apostles originally write the New Testament books in a different language closer to the time of Christ and then later they got translated to Greek? Ok. Now I'm confused. :o
 
Sharri14 said:
I hear he spoke Aramaic.

Being the son of God I am sure he could have spoke any langauge he needed to.
Didn't he have a native language? He was brought up Jewish?

The Old Testmant in Hewbrew and the New Testament in Greek?? :smt017




Piece in Christ
Sharri
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Jesus and the apostles should have spoken Aramaic. That was the language of the area. As to the O/T being in Greek that should make you sit up as this was not the language of the area. In truth Christianity got foothold through the back door not the front. This in large part is due to Paul converting the gentiles not the Hebrew for which Jesus primarily came. You can prove this to yourself when you find the reason for Jesus speaking in parables.
 
Jesus spoke both Aramaic and Hebrew.....

probably understood Greek and maybe Latin....to some extent.....


For my Pentecostal friends,....."angelspeak"..... :)
 
I guess Jesus spoke any language he needed during the times he was here.



Piece in Christ
Sharri
 
I have it on good authority that Jesus actually spoke in l33t.
 
I have it on good authority that Jesus actually spoke in l33t.

Lol. Whatever gets the job done. Who knows? He may in the future when he returns. :wink:

What I really want to know is if the gospels were originally written in Greek or another language? Anyone know what language the oldest Gospel accounts were found in? Was it Greek or another language? If it was Greek, and the apostles who were with Christ spoke and wrote another language, then perhaps the original gospel accounts were written years before those currently dated. Just something to think about. Anyone able to clarify?
 
Hi Sherri,

http://www.markdroberts.com/htmfiles/re ... nguage.htm
Mark Roberts said:
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.)

In addition to the strong circumstantial evidence that Jesus spoke Aramaic as his primary language, we find direct evidence for this theory from the New Testament gospels. Though these gospels were written originally in Greek, at several points Jesus' words are given in Aramaic, for example: "Talitha cum" (Mark 5:41, "Little girl, get up!"); "Abba" (Mark 14:36. "Father"); "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?" (Mark 15:34, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"). In these cases the actual Aramaic words of Jesus were remembered and passed on even by Greek-speaking Christians.

These passages and others from the gospels, combined with the predominance of Aramaic in Palestine in the first century A.D., make it virtually certain that Aramaic was Jesus' primary language. I don't know of any serious scholar who doubts this conclusion.
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Packrat

I've been told, but I cannot verify that the Apostles would have spoken greek as well as their native language since they were under Roman rule. Paul would have spoken and written in an educated form of greek being that he was a Roman citizen of Jewish decent.
 
While Jesus (and the people of the NT, for the most part) spoke Aramaic, the commonly used language in most Roman regions was Greek, and so that's the language that was used to transcribe the first versions of the various books of the Bible (which were composed between about 50 and 150 AD). It's also possible that Matthew was written in Hebrew or Aramaic, but this is a minority opinion. Some also think that the entire NT was originally in Aramaic, but this is an extremely minority opinion. It was around 400 or so when the books were all assembled into what we now regard as the NT.

One interesting side note is that, for reasons I don't quite recall, much of the greek of the NT was originally transcribed without vowels. This means that judgement calls had to be made when we started to translate it into other languages, since many words are identical when you remove all the vowels. The upshot of this is that it's pretty much impossible to tell for certain how accurate certain translations are.
 
Thanks everyone for your feedback it really helped me out. :D



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Sharri
 
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Packrat said:
I have it on good authority that Jesus actually spoke in l33t.

Lol. Whatever gets the job done. Who knows? He may in the future when he returns. :wink:

What I really want to know is if the gospels were originally written in Greek or another language? Anyone know what language the oldest Gospel accounts were found in? Was it Greek or another language? If it was Greek, and the apostles who were with Christ spoke and wrote another language, then perhaps the original gospel accounts were written years before those currently dated. Just something to think about. Anyone able to clarify?
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The oldest bible did not come into existance until 397 AD at the Council of Cartage. THe oldest manuscripts that have been found regarding the N/T are in Greek and not the language of the apostles or Jesus. As I have often pointed out we don't know who wrote the bible or how often or how accurate it has been copied or changed. If you look at your bible it even tells you the "book according to _____." This implies someone writing on their behalf at the very least.
 
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