To: Destro; heyheyhey
No, Paul was from Tarsus in what is now SE Turkey, and Aramaic probably was his native tongue. Greek would be his second language, in a matter of life and death he would have used that rather than Latin (in the interest of accuracy). Note however that he addressed the crowd in Aramaic, not Greek, and that the commander was surprised that he spoke Greek at all . . . thought he was an Egyptian in fact.
68 posted on
03/06/2004 7:59:39 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: AnAmericanMother; Destro
That's right.
I don't really care what was the "real" language used in the dialogue between Jesus and Pilate, and I don't think it is possible to establish it beyond any doubt, since the original tape recording didn't survive - according to world's most renown researchers. However, to claim that Gibson's choice of Latin is a gross historical inaccuracy is nothing but anti-Gibsonism.
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