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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.
show the use of Greek in Jesus’ first-century surroundings. Yet impressive voices quest ion the c ase f or Greek as the language Jesus used. A weighi ng of t he evidence on both sides seems to indicate that Jesus spoke and taught in both Greek and Aramaic, with the degree to which He used each one yet to be clarified by further
In his first chapter, “Did Jesus and His Disciples Speak Greek?” Gleaves directly confronts the “Aramaic Hypothesis” that prevails in biblical studies, which assumes an Aramaic background of some sort for the Greek New Testament.
- Michael Lockwood
Although the gospels are written in Greek, the teaching of Jesus was done in a Semitic language. When words of Jesus are translated back into the Semitic, they sometimes become easier to understand. An important question, at this point, is whether Jesus habitually spoke Aramaic—as is supposed by most scholars—or Hebrew.
- Stanley Porter
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
Evidence from archaeological, literary, and biblical data demonstrates Greek linguistic dominance in Roman Palestine during the first century CE.
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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.
