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13 Joseph A. Fitzmyer, “Did Jesus Speak Greek?” BiblicalArchaeology Review 18/5 (September/October 1992):58. 14 For example, see Dalman, Jesus-J eshua 11-13. Barr notes t hat some may be He br ew , bu t he cl ai ms none can be only Hebrew and not Aramaic (Barr, “Which Language” 16-17). In this he disagrees with
Jan 29, 2016 · Also, Jesus’ use of certain Aramaic phrases in Mark (e.g., talitha cumi in 5:41) seems to indicate that Jesus accommodated to those who could only speak Aramaic, which suggests that Greek was the commoner language (23). Futher, Mark’s translation of these transliterated phrases into Greek indicates his audience did not understand Aramaic phrases well, if at all.
Jun 1, 2015 · --Daniel H. Fletcher, Associate Professor of New Testament, Turner School of Theology, Amridge University, Montgomery, AL "Scott Gleaves has written a well-reasoned, and quite readable, book on the thorny question of what language Jesus spoke, and in what language the gospels were originally written.
Sep 7, 2016 · There are two reasons most scholars believe Aramaic was the primary language of Jesus’s time—and the language Jesus spoke: The overwhelming majority of documents and inscriptions recovered from the era are in Aramaic. Although documents do exist in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and other languages, they are a minority.
Aaron Tresham. 2009, The Master's Seminary Journal. TMSJ 20/1 (Spring 2009) 71-94 THE LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY JESUS Aaron Tresham * For decades scholarly consensus has held that Jesus usually spoke the Aram aic langu age. To evalua te the accu racy of this assu mption, one m ust investigate to learn w hich lan guage (s) was (we re) spoken in Israel ...
Mar 30, 2020 · Of the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark records Jesus using Aramaic terms and phrases, while in Luke 4:16, he was shown reading Hebrew from the Bible at a ...
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THE LANGUAGES OF JESUS What language or languages did Jésus speak? The scholarly debate which has been raging for over a century can briefly be summarised by dividing the protagoniste into two major schools of thought : HebrewHebrew advocates. — F. Delitzsch was convinced that « it was highly improbable that Matthew wrote in Aramaic » (1 ...
