Should we change the title of the Book of Hebrews to the Book of the Chaldeans or the Book of the Syrians or the Book of the Arameans???? Why is it so hard to call the language of the Jews what it is and was: HEBREW.
"And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew ["Hebraisti"] , and Greek, and Latin." [[John 19:19-20]
If the author John meant "Chaldee" he would have written "Chaldee", and if he meant "Aramaic", he would have written "Aramaic", but he didn't because it wasn't. It was called HEBREW -- and you cannot erase it from either history or the Greek scriptures.
Are you going to base your entire argument on your translation of the Bible, and I do focus on the word TRANSLATION?
Are just trying to be intentionally obtuse? Do you call the language of the Americans American? (you probably do, it wouldn't surprise me).
They didn't speak Hebrew in the 1st century. The name "Hebrew" referred to Biblical Hebrew (to differentiate it from Dead Sea Scroll Hebrew). In the Greek New Testament it is Hebraisti which was the koine Greek word for Chaldee (Aramaic). Which part of this don't you understand?
Just because our language is English doesn't mean we are English. Just because Alexandrian Jews spoke Greek and lived in Egypt doesn't mean they were Greek-speaking Egyptians, but Greek-speaking Jews.
The New testament Greek (look up any source) says Habrais means: