[jjotto]

Gemara is in Aramaic.

[Petrosius]

My remarks should have referenced the Mishnah.

But the fact that the Gemara is Aramaic makes it or its authors no less Jewish than the Mishnah. If the vernacular of Jesus and the Jews of his day was Aramaic they too would be no less Jewish. I do not understand this insistence that it must have been Hebrew.