Them poor Catholics...They'll say and do anything to get Jesus' language into Aramaic...
The bible used the words petros and petra...Two different words with different meanings...If the Aramaic kepha was used for one word, it couldn't have been used for the other...
Jesus didn't speak Greek, eh??? What, they didn't have a Greek language class at his school???
As usual, you don't have to get too far into Catholic literature before the lies and deception starts...
During the Babylonian Exile and the subsequent occupation by the Assyrians (700-330 BC), the Imperial Language of Aramaic became the common language of the Jews. In fact, the books of Ezra and Daniel were written in Aramaic.
At the very most, a few of the chapters were written in Aramaic...
Why is all this language study important to defense of the Faith? Just this: properly translating the Scriptures leads to proper interpretations. For example, when the “brothers of Jesus” are referred to in Scripture, it’s important to know that they are cousins, not children of Mary. We know this because Aramaic has no word for “cousin” and Semitic cultures usually consider all male relatives as “brother” or “uncle.” In fact, not to refer to a male relative as “brother” or “father” or “uncle” is a way of distancing oneself from them. If we try to go with the English word, or even the Greek one, then we run the risk of drawing the wrong conclusion from the word “brother” or “rock,” and that weakens our personal understanding of the faith.
Yet the Greek has a word for cousin and it is used in the scripture a number of times...
Perhaps you solved the problem...Apparently Aramaic was a limited language which could not convey words as they needed to be conveyed, so God used the Greek language to accurately say what he intended for us to know...That Jesus DID have brothers and sisters...
The original N.T. was written in Greek...You lost...Get over it...
let's see now....they were the brothers and sisters of the Son of God......they knew it.....and we never heard from them again.....ever. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Even a protestant couldn't believe that nonsense...