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More on Why Jesus was a Hebrew speaker

I appreciated the title of a recent essay (June 9, 2014) by Seth Sanders on Religion Dispatches entitled, “Why the Argument Over Jesus’ Language is More Complicated and More Interesting Than Media Experts Have Claimed.” In fact, many of Sanders’ points that elucidated the complexity of the language situation in the first century resonated with [...]

By Randall Buth|2023-11-22T08:05:20-08:00June 20th, 2014|ancient Greek, Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Blog, Dead Sea Scrolls, Galilee, Gospel of John, Hebrew alive, Hebrew in First Century, Koine Greek, Mishnaic Hebrew, New Testament, NT textual criticism, synoptic gospels, ἑβραιστί|1 Comment

Differentiating Hebrew and Aramaic Backgrounds in Greek writings

Semitic influence on an ancient Greek writing has been discussed widely in Biblical Studies and Pseudepigraphical texts. In general, it is quite difficult to go deeper and to differentiate between Hebrew influence and Aramaic influence on a particular Greek text. The new volume, Randall Buth and R. Steven Notley, edd., The Language Environment of First-century [...]

By Randall Buth|2017-06-12T21:31:24-07:00May 5th, 2014|Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew verb, Blog, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gospel of John, Greek word order, Greek word order, Hebrew in First Century, Mishnaic Hebrew, New Testament, Pseudepigrapha, synoptic gospels, Syriac, ἑβραιστί, ἐγένετο, ευθυς, τότε|Comments Off

Dead Sea Scrolls

More on Why Jesus was a Hebrew speaker

Differentiating Hebrew and Aramaic Backgrounds in Greek writings

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