Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

Ken Penner wrote:

> Hi James,
> There must be more to your argument, which as it stands appears to be:
>
> Aramaic was sometimes used by Jews in the Second Temple period.
> Therefore "Aramaic had firmly supplanted the Hebrew language in everyday
> use" in the first century.
>
> It seems to me that three languages were in use in first century Judaea, so
> demonstrating the use of one does not demonstrate its dominance over the
> others. But it would be helpful to consider which  kinds of evidence could
> we appeal to in order to show which (if any) of the three was dominant for
> everyday use.
>
> Ken Penner

Four-
Latin
Greek
Hebrew
Aramaic

Jim


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