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The evidence thus far seems to confirm the strong probability that Jesus did in fact speak Greek. I can also safely assume that both Jesus and his disciples were fluent in Greek because the cultural landscape of the times demanded such fluency.
- Michael Lockwood
y spoke the Aramaic language. To evaluate the accuracy of this assumption, one must investigate to learn which language(s) was(were) spoken in Israel during the first century A.D., and whether the sayings of Jesus in the Gospels record the spoken Greek of Jesus or are translations of wha.
Evidence from archaeological, literary, and biblical data demonstrates Greek linguistic dominance in Roman Palestine during the first century CE.
the purpose of this paper is to show that Jesus spoke Greek, had the linguistic ability to teach in Greek, and at times may indeed have taught in Greek. There may, in fact, exist instances recorded in the Gospels where Jesus conversed and possibly taught in Greek. After this fact is
So did Jesus speak Greek, or do we only have his speech in translation? Many scholars still maintain that Jesus spoke only Aramaic, but discoveries since the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947 demonstrate the use of both Hebrew and Greek alongside Aramaic in Roman Palestine.
With detailed charts, Gleaves analyzes the connection between the Greek New Testament and LXX; the instances of Aramaic words spoken by Jesus; and the lack of characteristics in the Greek New Testament one would expect to find in a translation from hypothetical Aramaic sources.
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Did Jesus Speak Greek - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document discusses how Jesus and many of his disciples likely spoke Greek fluently. It provides evidence that Galilee where Jesus grew up had a heterogeneous population where Greek was commonly spoken.
