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[Wgw]

Pilate was Roman. It is equally likely that the conversation was in Latin.
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It's not, actually. All extant evidence suggests that Koine Greek was the language of Imperial administration in the Eastern empire. An educated Roman like Pilate would have spoken it fluently.

 

[Open Heart]

You don't think they spoke Latin i Rome?????

And I do take issue with Jerusalem being the ONLY Jewish church. Who do you think Peter and James and the author of Hebrews were writing to? Certainly NOT gentile churches.

In Rome they spoke Latin and Greek. Greek was the lingua franca.

It's just like how everyone in the business world knows English, because English is the lingua franca of business.

 

[MWood]

Didn't the Romans take the land of Israel from the Greeks? Didn't the Greeks take this land from???? someone else, and remain in possession of it for???years, and require the Peoples to learn their language? Thereby while the Romans were in control, all the native Peoples were Greek speaking Peoples?

 

[Wgw]

Didn't the Romans take the land of Israel from the Greeks? Didn't the Greeks take this land from???? someone else, and remain in possession of it for???years, and require the Peoples to learn their language? Thereby while the Romans were in control, all the native Peoples were Greek speaking Peoples?

Administratively, yea, but just as Demotic / Coptic remained the vernacular tongue in Egypt, evidence suggests Judean and Gallilean Aramaic were the vernacular in Judea.

 

[Dave-W]

Didn't the Romans take the land of Israel from the Greeks? Didn't the Greeks take this land from???? someone else, and remain in possession of it for???years, and require the Peoples to learn their language? Thereby while the Romans were in control, all the native Peoples were Greek speaking Peoples?

Not exactly. When Alexander the Great was building his empire, he left out Judea intentionally. He had great respect for the Jews. Following his death his 4 generals split the empire into 4 sections and annexed Judea. In the 160s bc the Maccabes revolted (a family of priests) and drove out the Greeks. They reinstated a monarchy with decendants of the Maccabees sitting on the throne. That lasted about a hundred years when a dispute arose between competing claims to the Judean throne and they asked Rome to arbitrate and settle the issue. Rome did so by taking over the land and making 2 provinces out of it: Judea and Galilee. That was in the mid first century bc.

 

[Dave-W]

evidence suggests Judean and Gallilean Aramaic were the vernacular in Judea.

Correct. And a dialect of Hebrew proper was still spoken in Jerusalem. It was the language of the temple Priests and was used in the 2 schools of Pharisees. Those 2 schools trained the rabbis for every synagogue in Judea, Galilee, and the entire diaspora.

 

[MWood]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Open Heart]

Didn't the Romans take the land of Israel from the Greeks? Didn't the Greeks take this land from???? someone else, and remain in possession of it for???years, and require the Peoples to learn their language? Thereby while the Romans were in control, all the native Peoples were Greek speaking Peoples?

I don't know what to tell you. It's a matter of recorded history that the common language of scholarship and business in the time of the Roman Empire was Greek. The Greeks had simply done a better job of Helenizing peoples.

 

[yonah_mishael]

You don't think they spoke Latin in Rome?????

And I do take issue with Jerusalem being the ONLY Jewish church. Who do you think Peter and James and the author of Hebrews were writing to? Certainly NOT gentile churches.

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor. He wrote in Greek. It was not uncommon for Romans to both speak and write Greek.

 

[yonah_mishael]

I am sure that Jesus could speak any language he came across!

He could also perform complex mathematical functions. In fact, he had already solved Relativity long before Einstein came along. The equation was simply lost. He probably invented the plane, too.

 

[Goatee]

He could also perform complex mathematical functions. In fact, he had already solved Relativity long before Einstein came along. The equation was simply lost. He probably invented the plane, too.

Yep!

 

[yonah_mishael]

Yep!

While we're at it... I've got a nice ocean-front lot in Missouri that I'm looking to part with. A cool mil would suffice.

 

[Open Heart]

He could also perform complex mathematical functions. In fact, he had already solved Relativity long before Einstein came along. The equation was simply lost. He probably invented the plane, too.

LOL So good to have you around.

 

[Tiny Bible]

Thanks for your reply. What's a Peshit? I was referring to an Aramaic NT or a Bible translated to english

I've been reviewing this list for awhile. It may help you as well. (Amazon Peshitta NT...)

 

[Aryeh Jay]

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[yonah_mishael]

Do you take checks?

You take my word, I'll take yours.

 

[Hoshiyya]

He could also perform complex mathematical functions. In fact, he had already solved Relativity long before Einstein came along. The equation was simply lost. He probably invented the plane, too.

You are on a forum where theists liberally speak about the power imputed onto the son of God by God. Learn to accept that.

If he is the son of God, or God The Son, why wouldn't he be able to do these things ?
The Apostles were able to speak many languages when the spirit of God descended upon them (the Bible says.)

 

[Wgw]

He could also perform complex mathematical functions. In fact, he had already solved Relativity long before Einstein came along. The equation was simply lost. He probably invented the plane, too.

Actually, "perform" and "solve" are rather too anthropomorphological with regards to an omniscient deity. God is the fullness of all qualities and perfections in their highest and infinte form, to quote St. Basil; He is immutable; the idea of performace and solution implies change in the divine nature, a progression from a state of informed ignorance to a state of deduced knowledge.

We could I suppose attribute such abilities to our Lord according to His human nature, however, this to me comes uncomfortably close to Nestorianism.

 

[yonah_mishael]

You are on a forum where theists liberally speak about the power imputed onto the son of God by God. Learn to accept that.

If he is the son of God, or God The Son, why wouldn't he be able to do these things ?
The Apostles were able to speak many languages when the spirit of God descended upon them (the Bible says.)

Yes, but just making things up doesn't help anything. Jesus didn't build or fly a space ship. He didn't explain the Theory of Relativity or how gravity works. He didn't tell people that we would eventually be boarding airplanes and flying quickly from place to place. And, shock of all shocks, he didn't speak Chinese. He was under the same limitations of language acquisition that we are under - that is, one must be exposed to a language for a long period of time in order to acquire it for speech. This isn't about magic. It's about the limitations of being a human being.

 

[yonah_mishael]

We could I suppose attribute such abilities to our Lord according to His human nature, however, this to me comes uncomfortably close to Nestorianism.

Precisely... from all standard Christian theological positions, Jesus was divested of omniscience while living on earth (if you accept the statement of belief on this forum - that Jesus was God-in-the-flesh). He, therefore, did not speak Chinese or "every language of the earth," as the user said above.