What
language did Jesus speak? Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century a
mistaken notion – Jesus only knew and spoke Aramaic -- took hold that has
by-and-large continued to dominate both scholarly and popular opinion. Yet, the
results of a century of archaeological evidence have challenged this assumption
and brought a sea change of understanding regarding the linguistic environment
of first-century Judaea. The inscriptional and literary evidence reflects a
reality not unlike what we find with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Of the 700
non-biblical texts from the Qumran library, 120 are in Aramaic and 28 in Greek,
while 550 scrolls were written in Hebrew. Read the complete article at -- http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2014/05/judean-lingo/
Discovering our biblical heritages and our spiritual roots.
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