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What Language(s) Did Jesus Speak and Why Does It Matter?
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| February 2004 (updated 2/2007)
| Mark D. Roberts
Posted on 09/18/2009 12:54:26 PM PDT by Nikas777
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posted on
09/18/2009 12:54:28 PM PDT
by
Nikas777
To: Nikas777
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posted on
09/18/2009 12:55:54 PM PDT
by
Patrick1
(I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
To: Nikas777
Unfortunately it is NOT so obvious (to some) that it didn't need to be said.
Of all the crazy things overheard on a public bus this one had to take the cake.
Old batty woman complaining about some foreigner with bad language skills “If English was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for everyone else!”
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posted on
09/18/2009 12:56:29 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: allmendream
The question is because He is who He is, he could speak any language. The thing is, what languages did he speak? And Mel Gibson is probably right. Aramaeic and Latin.
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posted on
09/18/2009 12:58:26 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: allmendream
The woman is correct. Just ask your local 7-11 clerk, he will tell you.
To: allmendream
lol She probably also believed Jesus was tall, blue eyed, light skinned and fair haired.
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posted on
09/18/2009 12:59:04 PM PDT
by
RAO1125
(Neoconservatism:Failed. Socialism:Failing (again). Next up: Libertarianism)
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:00:45 PM PDT
by
RAO1125
(Neoconservatism:Failed. Socialism:Failing (again). Next up: Libertarianism)
To: BigEdLB
"The thing is, what languages did he speak? And Mel Gibson is probably right. Aramaeic and Latin." Greek was also fairly common throughout the eastern mediterranean at the time of Christ. John 19:19-20) describes the titulus as follows:
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. (King James Version)
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:01:46 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: allmendream
Old batty woman complaining about some foreigner with bad language skills If English was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for everyone else! LOL, how dumb can you be and still breath. You can tell by his name, Jesus spoke Spanish.
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:01:48 PM PDT
by
Always Right
(Equal Opportunity Hater....)
To: Nikas777
Generally Aramaic I believe, but also on occassion in a “language” that anyone who saw and heard Him could understand as if it were their native tongue.
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09/18/2009 1:02:25 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Bussing in SEIU brownshirts to intimidate regular Americans is REAL FASCISM! NRA Lifetime Member)
To: equalitybeforethelaw
"Thank you, come again!"
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:03:31 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Marking Time On The Government's Dime)
To: Always Right
Aramaic is one of the Semitic languages, an important group of languages known almost from the beginning of human history and including also Arabic, Hebrew, Ethiopic, and Akkadian (ancient Babylonian and Assyrian). It is particularly closely related to Hebrew, and was written in a variety of alphabetic scripts. (What is usually called “Hebrew” script is actually an Aramaic script.)
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:03:57 PM PDT
by
Patrick1
(I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
To: Patrick1
The other question is “does it matter”? The answer would be no.
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:05:24 PM PDT
by
Patrick1
(I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
To: Joe 6-pack
Yes Greek and Hebrew as well....
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:06:45 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: BigEdLB; allmendream
Mel Gibson was incredibly wrong. Aramaic and Greek and not Latin. Which Gibson had in there as a conceit to his extreme Catholicism.
Even the coins Pilate mined for the region were in Greek not Latin.
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:11:05 PM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: Nikas777
He probably was quadrilingual (Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, and some Latin).
Most of His teaching was in Greek. It was the lingua franca of the day, the Gospel writers recorded all His conversations as in Greek, and they made a special note of those occasions when He spoke Aramaic ("Abba," "Talitha kum," "Ephphatha," and so forth).
Of course it matters.
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:11:10 PM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: Nikas777
stop it. everybody speaks english! even in galaxy’s far, far away and all aliens that the starship enterprise came into contact with!
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:13:00 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Nikas777
I believe he spoke King James English, and then it was translated into latin or some such thing...
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:13:15 PM PDT
by
rface
To: Nikas777
Not a surprising question considering how many people think the Bible was originally written in Latin.
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:15:59 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Joe Wilson was right.)
To: Nikas777
Actually, the piece's author illustrates why it matters, though he does it by getting it wrong.
Asserting without direct evidence that Jesus' primary language was Aramaic, he goes on to explain something Jesus taught in Greek, by appealing to what (he thinks that) the Aramaic that (he thinks that) Jesus spoke would have meant.
Get that. He takes the only record we have of Jesus' words which is Greek and pushes it aside in favor of an interpretation based on a wholly-conjectural Aramaic original.
So yeah. It matters.
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posted on
09/18/2009 1:16:24 PM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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