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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (15169)	6/1/2001 9:11:10 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Actually, you are mistaken. Aramaic is related to Hebrew, but is not Hebrew. It was not until the ascension of Pharisaic Judaism, that Aramaic became common among religious Jews, in order to read the Talmud. At the time of Christ, in the Jewish communities outside of Palestine (which, even before the Diaspora, held at least half of world Jewry), Greek was usually the native tongue, and one could not count on a knowledge of Aramaic, or even a fluency in Hebrew. The Septuagint was the Bible commonly used among Jews outside of Palestine, at least for study. Additionally, many literate Jews within Palestine knew Greek. Thus, it makes perfectly good sense that the New Testament should have been written in Greek......