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Luke was from Antioch of Syria, so couldn't he have spoken the Syriac dialect of Aramaic? Paul was also from Tarsus of Turkey (the same country in which Edessa is in), but was raised in Jerusalem. When Paul spoke to the people in Acts 21:40, it is stated the he spoke in "Hebrew" (the Judean Aramaic dialect). The question is if Paul's Aramaic could have been a mix between Syriac (which his parents could have spoken) and Judean (in which he would have been schooled). I call this mixed dialect "Judeo-Syriac". What do you all think?
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What I meant when I said that, was how Paul would have talked. Whatever the Turkish Aramaic dialect was is what Paul's parents would have spoken. Paul was schooled in the Judean dialect though. So my question is, could Paul have spoken a mixture of the two dialects? It just seems like a natural conclusion to me. I don't know if I would call the dialect Syriac of Tarsus or not, honestly. I don't know what the dialect of Tarsus was. I know Syriac was spoken in some parts of Turkey.
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Thanks for your input, Akhi Paul (first time I have ever referred to anyone with that word in Aramaic). That's one thing I was thinking about when writing the post.
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Many scholars argue that Antioch of Syria speaks Greek, not aramaic. And I can't find some texts which proves the opposite