220782 Resource 169992 170084 170084 1229379596907 1229389105241 Controlled What Languages Were Spoken in First Century Judaea and Galilee?

Archaeology helps put the record straight

A concept put forward in older dictionaries and commentaries is that Hebrew was not spoken or used in the time of Jesus Christ and the apostles in Judaea and Galilee. Rather the language spoken was Aramaic. This idea was so pervasive that references by Eusebius that the Gospel of Matthew was written in the Hebrew language were footnoted to read Aramaic. During the last 60 years, however, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other archaeological remains show that Hebrew was alive and well as a language, even under the Roman occupation of the land.A recent article by <a href="http://www.jerusalemperspective.com/Default.aspx?tabid=27&ArticleID=1959">Jerusalem Perspective</a> sets out to analyse the languages based on a large part of the epigraphic record of inscriptions and coins from the Second Temple Period. It establishes that Hebrew was an actively used language in the land, existing alongside Aramaic and Greek. 10 application/xml false Aramaic archaeology Dead Sea Scrolls epigraphy Greek Hebrew Jerusalem Perspective languages Second Temple Period Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 pnathan 71.108.206.139 false true false false true 188838 false false true false false false true 169992 blog blogsite/FirstFollowers/web