06-14-2013, 12:07 AM
I checked Payne's dictionary for "Atsa" and found out that "Atsa" can also mean "to resist" or "to fight against."
One of the deceptive natures of Dead Sea Scrolls is to make it look like Hebrew was always the major spoken language of Israel and Aramaic was always a secondary language to Jews.
But through New Testament and Josephus, we know that Aramaic was the only spoken language of Jews in first century Israel and also up to 130 AD. Not a single person used Hebrew as a spoken language in first century Israel.
We now know that it was the Evil Bar Kokhba who was responsible for bringing back Hebrew as the spoken language instead of Aramaic.
Many Hebrew Idioms were borrowed from Aramaic idioms and many Aramaic words were borrowed into Hebrew during the restoration of Hebrew as a spoken language during Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 AD). Words like Rabb, Rabbi, Mammon, Corban, are Aramaic words that were borrowed into Hebrew.
One of the deceptive natures of Dead Sea Scrolls is to make it look like Hebrew was always the major spoken language of Israel and Aramaic was always a secondary language to Jews.
But through New Testament and Josephus, we know that Aramaic was the only spoken language of Jews in first century Israel and also up to 130 AD. Not a single person used Hebrew as a spoken language in first century Israel.
We now know that it was the Evil Bar Kokhba who was responsible for bringing back Hebrew as the spoken language instead of Aramaic.
Many Hebrew Idioms were borrowed from Aramaic idioms and many Aramaic words were borrowed into Hebrew during the restoration of Hebrew as a spoken language during Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 AD). Words like Rabb, Rabbi, Mammon, Corban, are Aramaic words that were borrowed into Hebrew.