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To: Spar
By the way Campion, Jesus did spend his young life in Egypt and in Egypt of that time if you wanted to make a living as a carpenter you spoke Greek.

Jesus was still a young child when Herod died, and the family returned to Israel. Jesus wasn't a carpenter in Egypt. Also, there was only one Aramaic word for those who worked in the construction industry and who weren't masons. In fact, Joseph and Jesus were architects, hence their advanced education.

101 posted on 02/05/2002 1:06:10 AM PST by peabers
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To: peabers
I implied his Joseph needed to speak Greek in Egypt to work. Children are sponges. Even a few months in Egypt and Jesus would have picked up a large vocabulary of Koine (common tongue) Greek. I have heard the argument that Jesus and Joseph were not simple woodworkers, but stone masons, etc. If so, the largest employer of such craft were the pagans for their temples and public works. The Romans spoke Greek in all public activities (High born Romans preferred to speak Attic Greek rather than their native Latin). Jesus probably never uttered a word in Latin other than the Greek pronunciation of Caesar's name (Kesaros). By the way, execution by crucifixion was introduced to the Romans by the Greeks and Jesus would have been told that he would be killed by stavrosma.

Final note, the need to distance St. Peter from the Jesus comment is a concern for some protestants for obvious reasons.

133 posted on 02/05/2002 9:14:46 PM PST by Spar
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