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Facts about the "Hebrew Primacy" movement
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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?
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Re: Facts about the "Hebrew Primacy" movement - by Paul Younan - 01-08-2008, 09:51 PM

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