Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)]

On Fri 27 Mar 2009 (10:36:09), rogland AT erskine.edu wrote:
> Those interested in pursuing the subject should consult the book below.
 [snip]

 I would refer you to Bishop Joseph Barber Lightfoot, /St Paul's
 Epistle to the Galatians,/ Tenth Edition 1890, reprint Macmillan's
 London 1921, where there is an article on the Galatian people (pp 1-17),
 and a dissertation /Were the Galatians Celts or Teutons?/ (pp 239-251).

 Lightfoot suggests that the Galatians were the Gauls. They migrated
 from Asia Minor up the Danube to Switzerland, and down the Rhone into
 France (aka Gaul), and from thence across the English Channel to Ireland
 and to Britain. The Franks came from Franconia and drove the Gauls into
 Britanny (La Bretagne), and into Great Britain (La Grande Bretagne).
 Wales is known as Pays de Galles in French. Cornwall used to be known
 as South Wales until the Middle Ages. Welsh is cognate with Gaelic,
 and with Osco-Umbrian still spoken in parts of northern Italy.

 Against Barber's thesis it can be argued that Paul and his companions
 could not understand the language of the Lycaonians (Acts 14:11). If the
 Lycaonians were Gauls, and their language cognate with Hebrew, then Paul
 and Barnabas could have possibly understood the gist of what was said.

 Fascinating!

 Shalom

 Ben
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