On 01/03/2004 09:37, Karl Randolph wrote:
>Peter:
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>The classical Gymnasium program was very >strict: first Latin,...
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>That’s why the editors of the BHS expected >knowledge of Latin. And it is this pattern >that is one of the evidences why I don’t >think the common people in Judea and Samaria >spoke Hebrew in the market, on the street or >at home.
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Thanks for your comments about Germany in the 1970s. But what on earth is the relevance to Judea and Samaria in the 1st century CE? Surely you are not claiming that Jews had to learn Latin before Hebrew?
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