>> Furthermore, while the Bible was written in Greek, Jesus spoke Aramaic. (This leads me to suspect that the eyewitnesses would also be Aramaic speakers.)
I think you mean The New Testament was written in Greek.
There’s a great reason for that. It’s the same reason that Gentiles were referred to as Greeks, even when they were not Greek at all.
If you’re as scholarly as you claim, I shouldn’t have to tell you why, especially since I’m an ignorant old man who doesn’t even have a Bachelor’s Degree.
also, wouldn’t the fact that Christ was God mean He could speak any language He wanted to? (Some might argue he was bound by earthly limits, however, that does’;t hold as He routinely exceeded earthly law) It seems to me that holding Him bound to earthly law/rules is an attempt to discredit His deity- which seems t be a specialty of ‘scholars’ who look at everything through the prism of human limitations- which is odd since we are after all talking about God come to earth