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To: boatbums; OLD REGGIE
It is a FACT that the Jews had the scrolls in their synagogues and the temple and they were in the Hebrew language not Aramaic or Greek.

Not in Greek (unless you are dealing with the Greek-speaking Jewish diaspora in Alexandria or Asia Minor), but most definitely in Aramaic. The Targums were in use for quite a while. Even your source acknowledges that the latter parts of the Old Testament (Daniel being the last one) were written in part or entirely in Aramaic.

I also firmly believe that, although some of the Jews may not have spoken Hebrew the learned and religious ones certainly were fluent in it. Paul included

No doubt about that. It's like saying that some people schooled in religious studies have mastered Latin, Greek or Hebrew, but the same cannot be said of the general population.

I still don't understand what the point is that Jesus read the verses in Hebrew. Jews read the verses in Hebrew (transliterated) even if they don't understand them.

My point was that in order to explain the verses he had to re-read them or comment on them in Aramaic, i.e. based on Targum, which is to say an expanded translation.

2,845 posted on 11/21/2010 7:07:42 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: kosta50; OLD REGGIE
My point was that in order to explain the verses he had to re-read them or comment on them in Aramaic, i.e. based on Targum, which is to say an expanded translation.

And my point was that in Jesus' day (1st. century) they had the OT in Hebrew (it was NOT the LXX). I wanted to show that it had not disappeared prior to that.

2,854 posted on 11/21/2010 10:57:27 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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