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To: Pelham

I’m thinking that Hebrew at the time was more for the intellect and Aramaic being the common language?


34 posted on 12/18/2015 7:56:18 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

At the time Greek was the intellectual language and Hebrew more of a dead language, much like we regard Latin today.

The large Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt had translated the OT into Greek (what we call the Septuagint) because Greek is what everyone was using.

Aramaic is thought to have been the everyday language.


35 posted on 12/18/2015 8:08:20 AM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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