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To: vladimir998

Or it was elites and invaders that spoke Aramaic and Greek, while the peasantry, who never had a reason to abandon it, still spoke Hebrew.

The Mishnah, which included records of debates from at least a generation or two after the destruction of the Temple, was composed in classical Hebrew. The generations that followed apparently had their discussions in Aramaic.


14 posted on 06/21/2013 3:23:16 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

I don’t know if the elites would lose a language ability they once had since it was the elite who controlled the rituals and needed the language. But, who knows...?


16 posted on 06/21/2013 3:24:44 PM PDT by vladimir998
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