do you know the language of Jesus Christ?

Question

hi all
i asked this question not because i donot the answer but to know how many people "especially christians " knows about the language of the christ - the son of god
in fact i learn and speak aramaic since i am children because i am aramaic ....
many people donot know that aramaic still spoken nowdays... most christians of iraq turkey and iran and some christians of syria speak it
if you want to learn aramaic the following website will be useful :
http://www.learnassyrian.com/
http://www.assyrianlanguage.com/

Answer 1

Actually, nobody does. Both Hebrew and Aramaic were spoken in the region at the time; he may have spoken either or both of them.

Answer 2

Jesus' native language was Aramaic which is related to Hebrew and Arabic. It was the language in common use in Palestine at the time. As a Jewish boy he would have learned Hebrew in the Synagogue so that he could understand the Scriptures. Since he was the son of a carpenter and the Romans occupied Palestine at the time, he may have learned a bit of Latin in order to do business with the soldiers and maybe a little Greek in order to do business with others since Greek was commonly used in the area

Answer 3

The usual answer to this question is that "mother tongue" or everyday language was "Aramaic"

BUT since there were many dialects of Aramaic across a wide region over many centuries, that's hardly precise.

So to be more specific, the best evidence is that Jesus spoke "Galileean Aramaic," one of about seven dialects in the Syro-Palestinian region at that time (all of whose speakers could understand each other).

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But it is worth noting that Jesus was very likely to some degree TRI-lingual, also speaking Hebrew and some Greek.

Hebrew -- There is reason to believe many Jews of this period also spoke some Hebrew -- and we do at least find Jesus READING it when he reads from Scripture (from the book of Isaiah, told of in Luke 4).

"Hellenistic Greek" -- as a Galileean, living in border country, he likely spoke some Greek (and a number of his disciples later WROTE in it, since much of the NT appears to have been in Greek in its ORIGINAL form, even if some was translated from Aramaic). Greek was THE international language of the time (as Aramaic had been before it), at least in the EASTERN parts of the Roman Empire. Note that this was "Hellenistic Greek", which is much later and significantly different from Attic Greek in which Plato, et.al, wrote.

(Latin was also to be found for official uses. The occupying Romans used it, for example, in inscriptions and the soldiers would use it amongst themselves. But the administrative language and vehicle for communicating with the local people would mostly have been Greek.)

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Related -- the languages in *The Passion of the Christ*

Except for the odd use of Latin in places where GREEK was likely used (though for Catholic listeners it provided some familiar traditional language), the film made a great effort to reflect a believable use of languages and what we know of the time.

The Aramaic used was a translation based on "Palestinian Aramaic" texts as close as we can find to Jesus' own dialect. The pronunciation the actors were taught was based on that of people in the area who still speak a descendant of these dialects (different, for sure, but this way they sound like a real language... and we don't have anyone who can provide us 'the original accent'!)

Hebrew was used (if my ears did not deceive me) ONLY when Jesus was praying in the Garden -- because the decision was made (since we lack the full text of his actual prayers there) to have him pray from the PSALMS, which is a very sensible choice and which he might well have done in Hebrew.

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One mystery -- the gospel of John tells us the placard above Jesus on the cross was in Latin, Greek and 'Hebrew'. We can't be certain about the last word, since the Greek word 'Hebrew' could be used to refer to either Aramaic and Hebrew --two distinct languages (though clearly related and probably, to Greeks & Romans of the time, hardly different!) But almost all agree that Aramaic was being referred to (and there are several other places where the New Testament says "the name in ['Hebrew'] was..." followed by an ARAMAIC name.

Answer 4

aramaic, a cut between Hebrew and Arabic

Answer 5

Llogically..as he was hebrew..so his lang should be Hebrew
but the common in the region(Palastine,Jordan,Syria, Lebanon..) -who are too close to him(Jesus)&they r christian upto now- say that it was Aramic language
It is credible ,bcz the people living there were a mixture of local arabs,hebrew,and arabs frm Egypt...and so poor,weak
therefore the most ancient lang.of their was Aramic..&the most famous popular one is it..
so Jesus (who was aiming poor people&who was-him- lvng in north of palstine-where the aramic is spoken ..) was possibly speaking lang of majority,especially that Hbrw lang was&still is rough or coarse compared the local dialects even now..

Answer 6

Aramaic which is a form of Hebrew.
Language of Sematic peoples or decendants of Shem (one of Noah's sons).

Answer 7

Hebrew

Answer 8

Languages of Light and Love. He speak Words of GOD. His teachings later spread to other nations with different language.

Answer 9

i believe it was either hebrew or aramaic, more likely aramaic and i am fluent in both! :-)

Answer 10

Aramic.