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The Age of the Peshitta
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Yes, I believe they were able to keep a uniformity even during yearly feasts in Jerusalem.

As we all know, Josephus points out that Jewish Nation didn't encourage the learning of Greek in first century Israel. Because of this, Jews knowing Greek were extremely few even in AD 93/94 when Antiquities of Jews was finished.

First century Jewish Historian and Jewish Priest Josephus wrote in his last book and last chapter of Antiquities of Jews ?

"I have also taken a great deal of pains to obtain the learning of the Greeks, and understand the elements of the Greek language, although I have so long accustomed myself to speak our own tongue, that I cannot pronounce Greek with sufficient exactness; for our nation does not encourage those that learn the languages of many nations, and so adorn their discourses with the smoothness of their periods;b ecause they look upon this sort of accomplishment as common, not only to all sorts of free-men, but to as many of the servants as please to learn them. But they give him the testimony of being a wise man who is fully acquainted with our laws, and is able to interpret their meaning; on which account, as there have been many who have done their endeavors with great patience to obtain this learning, there have yet hardly been so many as two or three that have succeeded therein, who were immediately well rewarded for their pains." - Antiquities of Jews XX, XI

Josephus also points out that Greek was an unaccustomed language to Jews when he started working on translating Antiquities of Jews into Greek.

Antiquities of Jews Book 1, Preface, Paragraph 2 - "Now I have undertaken the present work, as thinking it will appear to all the Greeks worthy of their study; for it will contain all our antiquities, and the constitution of our government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures. And indeed I did formerly intend, when I wrote of the war, to explain who the Jews originally were, - what fortunes they had been subject to, - and by what legislature they had been instructed in piety, and the exercise of other virtues, - what wars also they had made in remote ages, till they were unwillingly engaged in this last with the Romans: but because this work would take up a great compass, I separated it into a set treatise by itself, with a beginning of its own, and its own conclusion; but in process of time, as usually happens to such as undertake great things, I grew weary and went on slowly, it being a large subject, and a difficult thing to translate our history into a foreign, and to us unaccustomed language."

Aside from the testimony of Josephus, we know that Jews spoke Aramaic wherever they lived.

This was mentioned by Dave Bauscher in his book.

When Jews from the province of Asia (Ephesus region in Turkey) saw Apostle Paul and Trophimos the Aramean at the temple of Jerusalem (Acts Chapter 21:27-29 of Peshitta), they called Israelites for help in Aramaic.

konway87
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The Age of the Peshitta - by ScorpioSniper2 - 11-20-2013, 10:21 PM
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