01-08-2008, 09:51 PM
Dawid Wrote:They are military letters of import.
Ever hear of the Navajo Code Talkers?
http://www.navajocodetalkers.org/
Perhaps some of the more "sensitive" communications regarding military tactics were penned in Hebrew, for the obvious reason that less people from a smaller pool of religious/educated elite would be able to translate for the Romans?
Look, no one ever said Hebrew was a dead language. It's always been around for at least liturgical purposes. I realize that it was probably alive in some sort of fashion in 1st-century Judea, at least among the religiously trained. But it was not the vernacular of the common people.
Jesus certainly seemed to use Aramaic. We've yet to uncover any exclusively-Hebrew words he used.
In addition, Aramaic would have been the best language of transport throughout the Jewish world - especially in the immense Jewish population of Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia.
Again, I raise the question - to whose benefit would a Hebrew NT have been?

