07-25-2015, 09:40 AM
I don't think that people who believe that the gospels were written in Aramaic think that Hebrew was a "dead" language in the first century CE.
It's just poisons the well to say so. After all the Hebrew bible was written in Hebrew. So people knew the language. But, the existence of translators in the synagogues must give us some kind of clue.
It's just poisons the well to say so. After all the Hebrew bible was written in Hebrew. So people knew the language. But, the existence of translators in the synagogues must give us some kind of clue.