John 19:19 (YHWH?)

[Dawid]

You have completely disregarded the other reference that I mentioned. Please go back and see what I wrote. they said it was better to cut up your children and feed them to pigs than to teach them Greek.

I haven't disregarded it Akhi, I've actually quoted that passage on this forum for several years now.

To them it was better to feed their children pork than to teach them Greek.

Nevertheless, they still would rather have had Greek being spoken than Aramaic. The preference was Hebrew, and if not then Greek....the nationalists didn't want Aramaic, it was too close to Hebrew and threatened to swallow it up (which it did).

It was an insult to Aramaic, an intended insult, when Greek was mentioned as a secondary preference next to Hebrew.

Be that as it may, the important thing is what Dave mentioned - in order for this to have even come up as an issue, you know the vernacular of the land was Aramaic.

There's no other option here for any reasonable person.

That's silly! Just a little later the spiritual descendants of these guys would be writing the Talmud in Aramaic. Parts of the TN"K, as you have so often pointed out, were written in Aramaic. The point was the same as the one made in G'linah, "I would that you were hot or cold..." They were saying you should either speak Lashon HaQodesh or become completely apostate and Hellenized.

Glad to know that I'm not reasonable. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->

Shalom,
Dawid