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To: roamer_1

At that time there were two main language groups in Israel, one spoke Hebrew, the Jews, and one spoke Greek, mainly the non-Jews.

In the Hebrew language this god has only be known as Yeshu, which is a foreign name, transliterated. It has no connection to any Hebrew name. The god has never been called anything but Yeshu. The same is probably true in India.

Aramaic? They spoke that in Syria to the north.


35 posted on 08/19/2014 1:38:36 PM PDT by idov
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At that time there were two main language groups in Israel, one spoke Hebrew, the Jews, and one spoke Greek, mainly the non-Jews.

While I am one who believes that Jews primarily spoke Hebrew in the first century (and have argued it endlessly hereon), it is simply specious to suggest that Aramaic was not also known and understood. The two are sister languages, readily interchangeable. It would seem more probable that your average Jew couldn't understand/speak Greek rather than Aramaic. And borrowed words (back and forth) then and today, prove it out. Both were living languages, side by side, in close proximity.

In the Hebrew language this god has only be known as Yeshu, which is a foreign name, transliterated. It has no connection to any Hebrew name. The god has never been called anything but Yeshu. The same is probably true in India.

That you will have to source, as every Jew I know, Messianic or not, knows him as Yeshua. Every early text I know of calls him either Yeshua or Jesus.

Aramaic? They spoke that in Syria to the north.

And Arabia to the west, and Egypt to the south. To suggest that Aramaic was afar off is ludicrous.

63 posted on 08/19/2014 3:04:00 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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