Aren't Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul literate enough for you or is it just something that they said????
***MB: I trust literate people who pride themselves in history and literacy amongst at least the priestly class in creating and maintaining reasonably accurate historical knowledge.
UC: Aren’t Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul literate enough for you or is it just something that they said????***
When they are not definitive, we must turn to other sources. In this case, the meticulate archives of the Jewish people themselves serve most masterfully. They know, and have kept the records, of what language they spoke, and when, and where. Their priestly class was, unlike 95 percent or better of the world, literate and prided itself on that literacy and the maintaining of the records of history.