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

To: Neocon who wrote (15179)	6/1/2001 10:09:19 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Not if it was written around or close to the supposed life of Jesus, however; since the religion would not at that time have spread (remember, this was pre-Diaspora). His followers then were Jews from Palestine, after all, and so - given the absence of hindsight - would be their first targets for proselytism. Would they not write in their own first language? Or were these simple fishers and masons (whatever) bilingual, and decided that a religion led by a Jew, based on Jewish teachings and fulfilling Jerusalem-based prophecies would be most obviously aimed at non-Jews who were so lapsed they couldn't even read their own holy books in the proper tongue...? Incidentally, if Aramaic became common only with the rise of the Pharisees and Talmudic study - I'm happy to accept your word on this - then from NT evidence this must have been before the birth of Jesus since by the time he comes to preach they are clearly established as rich and powerful Jewish leaders. Or have I just noticed a supposition by authors of gospels, writing way after the alleged events they depict and with now actual knowledge but their own agenda, that the status in their communities reflected Jewish life as it would have been ~150 years earlier? [i.e., if your argument is correct it at the same time strengthens mine - that the gospels were not written by contemporaries, or people who 'knew' anything of a living Jesus or of his time].