Hello, new subscriber here! 😊 I wonder if you are familiar with Dr Peter J. Williams' work on the beatitudes, showing that they were most likely composed and delivered by Jesus directly in Greek? Some of his presentations on this subject are available here on RUclips. It would be interesting to see how the various arguments weigh against each other.
Pretty sure Hebrew was only a liturgical language with a very small lexicon in ancient times. To my understanding, (correct me if you know more history) Hebrew as a general purpose language was only recently invented circa the time of Theordor Herzl.
A multicultural society requires - by necessity - a multilingüal foundation for communication. This varied view of the world around him, makes Jesus’ message of empathy, acceptance, love, and forgiveness a more universal one, still applicable today in a global world. As opposed to the traditionally monolithic American interpretation of the ‘narrow’ way that simply prolongs the old testament view into Jesus’ ministry.
Aramaic obviously, Hebrew because its a scholarly language when reading old testament and Greek since he was a carpenter going to different places to fix wooden stuff with gentiles
Jesus read the scriptures at the Synagogue, it would have been most likely Hebrew (Luke 4:17-21). The torah was unlikely to be written in Aramaic, unless one knows of Aramaic scriptures older then the Targum Onkelos.
The verbal link that allowed Jesus to join the two different Isaiah passages together in his reading in the Nazareth synagogue in Luke 4 is found in the Hebrew text: רצון לה׳. This indicates he was reading from a Hebrew scroll, which aligns with expectations since we know that Jews in the Land at that time interacted with the Hebrew text directly in Hebrew. For more details, see R. Steven Notley and Jeffrey P. García, “Hebrew-Only Exegesis: A Philological Approach to Jesus’ Use of the Hebrew Bible” in _The Language Environment of First Century Judaea: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels_ (Brill 2014).
Why do you not mention the fact that it was also possible that Jesus spoke or at least understood Latin? How did he communicate with Pontius Pilatethen, the Roman governor? Are you again assuming that all the Latin speakers also spoke Greek? That is not necessarily true. That he understood Hebrew is obvious because he taught in the temple in Jerusalem which used Hebrew. Aramaic is an offshoot of Hebrew, too. Although Latin may not have been the primary language of that area, Rome was the conquering power and that is what they spoke. Normal foot soldiers are not usually highly educated, which means they probably were not fluent in 3 languages. These are conjectures. At the time of the crucifixion, above Jesus's head was an inscription which was written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, so one could assume the Christ also knew Latin, but nowadays people want to dismiss the marvelous sacred language because it is Roman Catholic. Peter and Paul were both in Rome, and you mean that neither of them spoke a word of Latin?????
Excellent! Latin because he was a Roman *Centurion* - most Romans only knew Greek at the time, but Latin was still spoken in the military. And interesting re: Niocdemus - Gk is the prestige language in this situation, between two Jews who could speak another language with each other. There are contemporary parallels in various social settings
Jesus spoke the Universal Language….L💖VE
Thank you for the nuance. It is a precious rare commodity these days.
Hello, new subscriber here! 😊 I wonder if you are familiar with Dr Peter J. Williams' work on the beatitudes, showing that they were most likely composed and delivered by Jesus directly in Greek? Some of his presentations on this subject are available here on RUclips. It would be interesting to see how the various arguments weigh against each other.
You didn't mention Egyptian. There are good arguments for Jesus knowing 5 languages:
Aramaic
Hebrew
Greek
Latin
Egyptian
Aramaic
Pretty sure Hebrew was only a liturgical language with a very small lexicon in ancient times. To my understanding, (correct me if you know more history) Hebrew as a general purpose language was only recently invented circa the time of Theordor Herzl.
Pardon the spelling errors.
I am convinced about the Aramaic and Greek. But I do not know about the Hebrew use.
A multicultural society requires - by necessity - a multilingüal foundation for communication. This varied view of the world around him, makes Jesus’ message of empathy, acceptance, love, and forgiveness a more universal one, still applicable today in a global world. As opposed to the traditionally monolithic American interpretation of the ‘narrow’ way that simply prolongs the old testament view into Jesus’ ministry.
The Jesus of the gospel narratives spoke the language of his literary creator’s intended reader/audience: Koine Greek.
Assyrians still speak Aramaic today
Aramaic obviously, Hebrew because its a scholarly language when reading old testament and Greek since he was a carpenter going to different places to fix wooden stuff with gentiles
Tiflah qumiy in arabic. Both are semitic language. Benjamin MILEIKOWSKI Netanyahu is Belarusian 😂
Jesus read the scriptures at the Synagogue, it would have been most likely Hebrew (Luke 4:17-21). The torah was unlikely to be written in Aramaic, unless one knows of Aramaic scriptures older then the Targum Onkelos.
The verbal link that allowed Jesus to join the two different Isaiah passages together in his reading in the Nazareth synagogue in Luke 4 is found in the Hebrew text: רצון לה׳. This indicates he was reading from a Hebrew scroll, which aligns with expectations since we know that Jews in the Land at that time interacted with the Hebrew text directly in Hebrew. For more details, see R. Steven Notley and Jeffrey P. García, “Hebrew-Only Exegesis: A Philological Approach to Jesus’ Use of the Hebrew Bible” in _The Language Environment of First Century Judaea: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels_ (Brill 2014).
Why do you not mention the fact that it was also possible that Jesus spoke or at least understood Latin? How did he communicate with Pontius Pilatethen, the Roman governor? Are you again assuming that all the Latin speakers also spoke Greek? That is not necessarily true. That he understood Hebrew is obvious because he taught in the temple in Jerusalem which used Hebrew. Aramaic is an offshoot of Hebrew, too. Although Latin may not have been the primary language of that area, Rome was the conquering power and that is what they spoke. Normal foot soldiers are not usually highly educated, which means they probably were not fluent in 3 languages. These are conjectures. At the time of the crucifixion, above Jesus's head was an inscription which was written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, so one could assume the Christ also knew Latin, but nowadays people want to dismiss the marvelous sacred language because it is Roman Catholic. Peter and Paul were both in Rome, and you mean that neither of them spoke a word of Latin?????
Excellent! Latin because he was a Roman *Centurion* - most Romans only knew Greek at the time, but Latin was still spoken in the military. And interesting re: Niocdemus - Gk is the prestige language in this situation, between two Jews who could speak another language with each other. There are contemporary parallels in various social settings
Jesus can speak multi languages, 😊
multiple*
There was no alphabet with the symbols to produce the j sound.
You are only off by 1500 years.
1962 first grade language history.
Well, Jesus is God, so He could speak and still can speak every language ;)
Jesus is not God he is only the son of God which means created being
It's not the bible that's wrong it's only the people