[Salvation]

Why is all this language study important to defense of the Faith? Just this: properly translating the Scriptures leads to proper interpretations.

Catholic Ping!

[Cowboy Bob]

In all the movies I’ve seen, he has spoken English.

[zerosix]

At that time, the language of commerce in the land where the bible is concerned, the language spoken was Greek.

Only Romans citizens were taught and spoke Latin. It was forbidden to anyone else.

The common language (colloquial) amongst the locals in the area was Aramaic but if one was to be amongst a number of people one did not know, it would have been Greek.

However, Aramaic is what Jesus mostly spoke amongst His close associates & family. When He gave the prayer, known as The Lord's Prayer, was written in Aramaic.

[PROCON]

The language of Agape Love.

[Tzfat]

Hebrew.

Aramaic was the language of the diaspora in Babylon. In ~40 BCE, Hillel (who spoke Aramaic natively) immigrated to the Land of Israel. He married a women raised in the Land. The description of their language differences, well before Aramaic became common in the Land indicate that the common Jew in the Land in the early First Century spoke Hebrew as the home language. Aramaic was secondary in society, with Greek also spoken by those who traveled outside the Land.

Christian scholars claim Aramaic was dominant earlier in the Land of Israel, ostensibly for theological, rather than archeological reasons. Jewish scholars (who never underestimate ate the importance of Aramaic) have placed more weight on Hebrew as the primary language in Israel in the First Cen.

[katana]

Growing up in the region of Galilee, which was a crossroads and more Hellenistic area than Judea, He probably spoke Aramaic as his mother tongue but could also converse in some Greek and even Latin. And he could of course read and speak liturgical Hebrew. But by that time Hebrew was not an every day street language. Aramaic is a close cousin to it and to Arabic.

Hebrew was revived and the grammar for speaking it (which had been largely lost during the diaspora) was based on Arabic by the Jews of Andalusian Spain who served their Muslim masters. That relationship was one reason why they were expelled in 1492 along with all the remaining Muslims after the Reconquista by Ferdinand and Isabella (yep, same ones, same year).

[ConorMacNessa]

He "spoke" Sacrifice - the language of love.


"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[arthurus]

Aramaic was the language in normal use.