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To: Petrosius; RobbyS
>> “While Matthew was most likely originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic, the rest of the New Testament was clearly written in Greek.” <<

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Utter gibberish!

The entire new testament is riddled with clumsy translation errors caused by the total lack of understanding of the Hebrew and aramaic languages, and the Hebrew culture, by the the greek translators. there is not one book that doesn't contain these Hebrew related errors.

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>> “While Matthew was most likely originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic, the rest of the New Testament was clearly written in Greek.” <<

Ugly strawman! - That is not what I said.

All of the NT was ORIGINALLY written in Hebrew, or the the mistranslations of Hebrew would not be present in them.

There are passages in every book that are complete nonsequiturs, making no sense at all, because of these misunderstandings of Hebrew colloquialisms, and culturally centered figures of speech.

99 posted on 09/15/2013 5:21:34 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Judea was a bilingual country, conquered by Alexander more than three hundred years before Christ. Even in Jerusalem, there were Jews who spoke only Greek, which is why Stephen was made a deacon.


100 posted on 09/15/2013 5:42:57 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: editor-surveyor
All of the NT was ORIGINALLY written in Hebrew, or the the mistranslations of Hebrew would not be present in them.

Or it could mean that Paul was writing in Greek as a second language. Using grammatical patterns from one's native language is quite common for speakers of a second non-native language. It is absurd to think that Paul wrote his epistles in Hebrew when those addressed would not understand it. Greek was the common language of the entire eastern Mediterranean. This was the language that Paul used.

103 posted on 09/15/2013 6:25:33 PM PDT by Petrosius
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