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To: roamer_1; Mad Dawg
Good link, in which it does say that
In other words, "in terms of dialect geography, at the time of the tannaim Palestine could be divided into the Aramaic-speaking regions of Galilee and Samaria and a smaller area, Judaea, in which Rabbinic Hebrew was used among the descendants of returning exiles."[10][11] In addition, it has been surmised that Koine Greek was the primary vehicle of communication in coastal cities and among the upper class of Jerusalem, and Aramaic was prevalent in the lower class of Jerusalem, but not in the surrounding countryside
Galilee = Aramaic speaking...
3,223 posted on 07/29/2010 1:13:59 AM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit)
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To: Cronos; Mad Dawg
Galilee = Aramaic speaking...

LOL!!! Just yesterday you were sure that Hebrew as a language was dead 400 years before Christ.

Now you seem to be reduced to fighting for the idea that a devout and orthodox-raised Nazarene could not possibly speak Hebrew, which was undoubtedly spoken in both the synagogues and the Temple (psst: Ezra). Yes.... the Temple: Where that twelve year old Nazarene astounded the scholars with His intimate knowledge of the Scriptures... THAT Temple.

This argument is well past over. If you want to argue just for the sake of argument, I am not interested in continuing.

If you actually have an interest in the truth, I might suggest a work by an eminent scholar, Dr. David Flusser: Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988)

3,506 posted on 07/29/2010 4:41:00 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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