What Language did Jesus Spoke. In Which Language was the Bible First Revealed / Written.?

Question

Isnt it possible that Because of so many Translations over the centuries the Bible must have been misquoted due to human intervention.

Answer 1

He spoke Aramaic.
The Bible was First Belived to be Written in Hebrew.
And i dont rule of the possibility of errors in present bible because of Human Intervention.

Answer 2

Jesus spoke mostly Aramaic but could speak in tongues (all languages) so when He traveled He could tell all about His Father. He was a Jew so Hebrew was like His 2nd language.

The first writtings of the bible we have today was in Hebrew. Ancient Hebrew and Hebrew today is a little different but not by much. After Hebrew bibles came Greek, then Latin, then Roman (which is the alphabet that Americans use today but we added 4 more letters to it about 300 yrs ago). Then when all different races appeared and they wanted to read the bible and the Christians wanted to have them read it all languages were used. The Holy Bible has been translated into the various languages by highly educated people that knew many languages and took years to do. Many years, sometimes a hundred years.

The Catholic faith teaches that on Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost descended onto the disciples (then they were referred to as apostles) that the Holy Ghost made sure that the word of God (the bible) was translated correctly. I have studied it for years and know people that have studied for 30+ yrs and when you compare the Catholic bibles to the Hebrew bibles (old testament only) that they are the same words. Christian bibles of course have the New Testament because those are the books of Jesus. The Jews have the Torah, Old Testament (called Hebrew Bible) and a few more added at the end that the Catholic Church didn't put in ours.

If you are really interested in learning this, contact me. I have many references I can give you.

Answer 3

The language spoken at the time of Christ among the Jews was Aramaic, though after years of Hellenization and Romanization, scholars in the state of Israel have pretty much started speaking and writing Greek.

The Old Testament is pretty much written in Hebrew and Aramaic. The New Testament is taken from Greek, most notable of the Greek translations being one that was agreed on by the authorities of the time, known as the Septuagint (spelling?)...

The possibility for mistranslation is possible, especially when there is only one denomination overseeing the translation. Early Latin translations, such as the Vulgate, are questionable from that point of view alone.

Most 20th and 21st century translations are easily authenticated because they take translations all the way from early Greek translations of the Scriptures, which is overseen by representatives of multiple denominations. Some may be considered "mistranslated" simply because of the evolution of the language (example being the difference between the Old English used in the 1661(?) King James Version as opposed to the more recent New King James Version), but otherwise can be said to be accurate.

When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and the first texts (I believe they started with the book of Isaiah) compared to modern translations, they were found to be "unusually accurate" for a document translated into so many editions in so many languages. It is thus good to know that God is still watching, ensuring that His Word remains true for us to read...

If you wish to be more certain of your source, you could try reading the preface of the Bible in question, which should contain details of how the group set their translation guidelines and who oversaw it, as well as where they took their sources.

Answer 4

Jesus spoke Aramaic

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. All translations are made by cross-referencing as many original documents of the Bible as possible and the Bible is the only ancient Book that has a number of authentic originals.

Answer 5

JESUS SPOKE ARAMAIC, the common language of Galilee during his lifetime. Aramaic was an ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew much as French is related to Spanish or as Cantonese is related to Mandarin. (Thanks to Prof. Zev bar-Lev for help with these analogies.) Though Jews had once spoken Hebrew as their primary language, this changed when Israel was overthrown, first by the Assyrians in the eight-century B.C. and then by the Babylonians in the sixth-century B.C. By the time of Jesus Aramaic was so common among Jews that the reading of the Hebrew Scripture in the synagogue was accompanied by translation into Aramaic.
BIBLE WAS FIRST WRITTEN IN HEBREW.

Answer 6

Jesus' spoke Aramaic, the common language of Galilee during his lifetime. Aramaic was an ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew much as French is related to Spanish or as Cantonese is related to Mandarin. (Thanks to Prof. Zev bar-Lev for help with these analogies.) Though Jews had once spoken Hebrew as their primary language, this changed when Israel was overthrown, first by the Assyrians in the eight-century B.C. and then by the Babylonians in the sixth-century B.C. By the time of Jesus Aramaic was so common among Jews that the reading of the Hebrew Scripture in the synagogue was accompanied by translation into Aramaic.
In addition to the strong circumstantial evidence that Jesus spoke Aramaic as his primary language, we find direct evidence for this theory from the New Testament gospels. Though these gospels were written originally in Greek, at several points Jesus' words are given in Aramaic, for example: "Talitha ***" (Mark 5:41, "Little girl, get up!"); "Abba" (Mark 14:36. "Father"); "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?" (Mark 15:34, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"). In these cases the actual Aramaic words of Jesus were remembered and passed on even by Greek-speaking Christians.

The Pre-Reformation History of the Bible From 1,400 BC to 1,400 AD

The story of how we got the English language Bible is, for the most part, the story of the Protestant Reformation which began in the late 14th Century AD with John Wycliffe. Indeed, if we go back more than just one thousand years, there is no language recognizable as "English" that even existed anywhere. The story of the Bible is much older than that, however.
The first recorded instance of God's Word being written down, was when the Lord Himself wrote it down in the form of ten commandments on the stone tablets delivered to Moses at the top of Mount Sinai. Biblical scholars believe this occurred between 1,400 BC and 1,500 BC… almost 3,500 years ago. The language used was almost certainly an ancient form of Hebrew, the language of Old Covenant believers.
The earliest scripture is generally considered to be the "Pentateuch", the first five books of the Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy… though there is some scholarly evidence to indicate that the Old Testament Book of Job may actually be the oldest book in the Bible. The Old Testament scriptures were written in ancient Hebrew, a language substantially different than the Hebrew of today. These writings were passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years on scrolls made of animal skin, usually sheep, but sometimes deer or cow. Animals considered "unclean" by the Jews, such as pigs, were of course, never used to make scrolls.

Answer 7

Hebrew was the language of the Old Testament. The New Testament, in the original, was part Aramaic and part Greek. Jesus spoke Aramaic.

Answer 8

Jesus spoke in Suriani. That was the language in his country. His life history was written by various followers after his time. that is the reason for the controversies in the naration. The word of God that he left behind slowlt got destroyed. this is the reason for the various editions of the book called the Bible that exixt today

Answer 9

Jesus spoke Aramaic.

Answer 10

Well, I think the answer is in on the language, let me address the guy above saying allah is the same as the One True God. Islam's allah was a throw away idol. Some Muslims have claimed that the word "Allah" is in the Bible because the Biblical word "Allelujah." They then mispronounce the word as "Allah-lujah" But "Allelujah" is not a compound Arabic word with "Allah" being the first part of the word. It is a Hebrew word with the name of God being "JAH" (or Yahweh) and the verb "alle" meaning "praise to." It means "praise to Yahweh." The Arabic word "Allah" is not in the word.
The same error is found in the Muslim argument that the word "Baca" (Psa. 94:6) really means "Mecca." The valley of Baca is in northern Israel.
The present meaning of a word is irrelevant to what it meant in ancient times. The word "Allah" is a good example. When confronted by the historical evidence that the word was used by pagan Arabs in pre-Islamic times to refer to a high god who was married to the sun-goddess and had three daughters, some Muslims will quote dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. to prove that "Allah means God." They are thus using modern definitions to define what the word meant over a thousand years ago! What "Allah" means now has no bearing on what it meant before Muhammad.

Islam's origins have been traced back by scholars to the ancient fertility religion of the worship of the moon god which was always the dominant religion of Arabia. The moon god was worshipped by praying toward Mecca several times a day, making an annual pilgrimage to the Kabah which was a temple of the moon god, running around the Kabah seven times, caressing an idol of a black stone set in the wall of the Kabah, running between two hills, making animal sacrifices, gathering on Fridays for prayers, giving alms to the poor, etc. These were pagan rites practiced by the Arabs long before Muhammad was born. What religion today practices the pagan rites of the moon god? Islam! This explains why the crescent moon is the symbol of Islam. It is placed on top of mosques and minarets and displayed on hats, flags, rugs, amulets and even jewelry. Every time you see the Muslim symbol of a crescent moon, you are seeing the ancient symbol of the moon god.


The quran itself is full of mistakes. So many claims that islam has the original one, yet there were MANY draft copies to begin with, that eventually got folded up in to one....more than 150 years AFTER muhammed. Then they burned all the previous orders and anyone who would be caught with anything but the new and improved version would be killed. To this, islam refutes that there were thousands of men who had memorized the quran and is how it kept its original form, but they put themsleves in a circle by doing so. These islamists believe Adam was not made as a perfect human in the beginning (contrary to the REAL truth) and say that NO man has ever been perfect. So now, they depend on these thousands of men to be able to memorize an entire book, and remember it all correctly word for word. You can take a table of people in a line, whisper something in their ear about two or three sentences, and have them whisper it in the next person's ear. By the time it gets to the end of the table, it is vastly different from the original. So, for the quran to TRULY be original.....
1. All these thousands of complete book memorizers would have to be perfect so as not to distort even a single word from one to the other.
2. They would have to have lived to be over 150 years old or faced the difficulty in finding other "perfect" humans to pass the memorization to.
We know neither is true.

Islam continually goes around in circles.....
Proving Allah by the Qur'an and then proving the Qur'an by Allah.
Proving Muhammad by the Qur'an and then proving the Qur'an by Muhammad.
Proving Islam by the Qur'an and then proving the Qur'an by Islam.

Round and round you go!!!



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