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From: "J.F. Gannon" <jfgannon@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: "Did Jesus speak Greek?"
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:26:00 -0400
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The answer to the question seems to be "very likely yes".  But whether one's
answer is affirmative, negative, or lies somewhere in between, I fail to see
why the question as posed is meaningless.

J.F. Gannon

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Subject: Re: "Did Jesus speak Greek?"


> This question is most likely meaningless as stated. In  Palestine in the
> first half of the first century diglossia prevailed.  People who spoke
greek
> mixed on a daily basis whith people who spoke Palestinian Aramaic.  Anyone
> who was monolingual would have had no difficutly finding an acquainance
who
> was bilingual and could thus provide access to the other language.  There
are
> contemporary documtents which describe this reality.  One exampel is the
> Palestinnian Talmud  written in Aramaic by Aramaic speaking rabbis in a
> passage where the rabbis bemoan the fact that in the synagogue in Caesarea
> the Jews were reciting the central prayers of the service in Greek not in
the
> more traditional Hebrew mixed with Aramaic..
>
> Howard Handler
> Choate Rosemary Hall
> Wallingford, Ct  06492
>

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