Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dewayne Dulaney <dewayne.dulaney AT gmail.com>]

Karl, you're surely right that Jesus' default texts of the OT would
have been in Hebrew, though he might have also learned some Targumic
renderings by heart in Aramaic, as well. I wasn't claiming he did read
the LXX, only that he probably could have if he chose, since Galilee
was a bilingual area and it was apparently common for Jewish folks
there to learn Greek as well as Aramaic when growing up. I certainly
don't think he would have gone with the LXX instead of the Hebrew.
That would have been uncommon for a Jew born in Israel, to say the
least. Not impossible, but improbable.

On 9/7/12, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Doug:
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Doug Belot <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> Why do you all seem sure that Jesus read from the Hebrew and not the
>> Septuagint.
>>
>
> Because Jesus was a good Jewish boy, who grew up in Galilee speaking
> Aramaic while learning Hebrew in the Schul. We know he spoke Aramaic
> because of transliterations in the New Testament of some of his statements
> in Aramaic. So what is unrealistic is to claim that he read the LXX.
>
>>
>> doug belot
>
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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