Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

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So, we should not be surprised that Gabbatha and Golgotha are also Aramaic words, words that are described in John as Hebraisti. The asterisk points to this note: “*Or the Hebrew dialect (that is, Aramaic),” which provides a literal translation of the Greek of this phrase ( te Hebraidi dialekto).

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And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? We cannot answer this question by the way the words look and sound, but only by how they were used at the time. Usually, the traditional theophoric element יהו‎ ( Yahu) was shortened at the beginning of a name to יו‎ ( Yo-), and at the end to יה‎ ( -yah). Living and ministering in a multi-lingual environment, Jesus might have used other languages as well, namely Hebrew and/or Greek. Elisha Qimron, The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Harvard Semitic Studies: Scholars Press 1986), p.This word was adopted as the official motto of Gallaudet University, the United States' most prominent school for the deaf. Besides, a Spanish speaker would not use the verb “eres” with “embarazada,” since this verb implies a permanent situation, which is rarely the case when one is pregnant. The Latin name has an irregular declension, with a genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative of Jesu, accusative of Jesum, and nominative of Jesus. Assuming that the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us something about the average Jew in the time of Jesus would be a little like arguing that since Amish people speak Pennsylvania Dutch (German) that language is used throughout the United States.

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According to an expert linguist whom I consulted, Hebrew and Aramaic are related much as French and Spanish or Cantonese and Mandarin. I can’t remember a conversation in which the possibility that Jesus spoke or taught in Hebrew was seriously considered. When one learns to speak Spanish, one discovers that there are many, many words in Spanish that look like words in English. These Bible verses refer to ten individuals (in Nehemiah 8:17, the name refers to Joshua son of Nun).

Similarly, the words Hebraisti and Hebraidi, which look and sound like Hebrew, may or may not mean Hebrew. If, for example, there is a play on words that works in Greek but not in Aramaic or Hebrew, this points to a Greek original. The fact that Jesus may have spoken Greek may help us to think differently about him and his ministry. Likely originating in proto-Semitic (yṯ'), it appears in several Semitic personal names outside of Hebrew, like in the Aramaic name Hadad Yith'i, meaning "Hadad is my salvation".

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Of the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark records Jesus using Aramaic terms and phrases, while in Luke 4:16, he was shown reading Hebrew from the Bible at a synagogue. That the meaning of the name was more important than the name itself is evidenced by the universal acceptance of the Greek translation, Πέτρος (Petros). The second reason why Acts 26:14 does not establish the fact that Jesus spoke Hebrew has to do with the meaning of the Greek phrase te Hebraidi dialekto. But language historians can shed light on what language a carpenter's son from Galilee who became a spiritual leader would have spoken.Quotations of a Greek-speaking Jesus would not stand out, and would simply flow with the Greek text. Hebrew form rabbi used as title of Jesus in Matthew 26:25,49; Mark 9:5, 11:21, 14:45; John 1:38, 1:49, 4:31, 6:25, 9:2, 11:8.