To: CondoleezzaProtege
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All of Judea spoke Hebrew. There were outsiders that spoke other languages, such as Aramaic, but at no time did the Hebrew population speak anything but Hebrew.
23 posted on
06/24/2018 3:36:40 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: editor-surveyor
I have never read that by the 1st century AD Hebrew was anything but a liturgical language, spoken by some in Jerusalem but by hardly anyone else outside of Jerusalem. From what I've seen, the paleo manuscript and scroll analysis confirms this. Seems to be little factual disagreement here.
But I'm no scholar.
Can you cite a source?
41 posted on
06/24/2018 5:18:01 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("For peace within your gates, speak truth and judge with sound judgment." - Zechariah 8:16)
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