2006-12-24 01:45:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that Jesus spoke Aramaic because that is the language of the Jews at that time. One has to understand that the Babylonian captivity separated the Jews from their homeland for at least eighty years. This separation made everyday speaking of Hebrew unpractical for daily living. The only place that most of them spoke Hebrew was at religious services.
I know this because I am studying Hebrew in college and my professor Dr. Charles Isbell (Look up his books at Amazon.com) talks about this stuff all the time. He explains that originally Hebrew was written without vowel markers. Over time as Hebrew became less of an everyday language, the rabbis had to add them along with accent markers to help the people read the Torah correctly.
I believe that Jesus understood Hebrew as well as anybody. The story about him at the temple when he was 12 years old seals it for me. However Jesus also dealt with throngs of people who spoke Aramaic, so it makes sense that he used Aramaic for everyday living.
2006-12-24 01:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by Future Citizen of Forvik 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also am curious why this is held to be true.
The people who said Aremaic is Hebrew are weirdly wrong. I know both. THey sound similar being semitic languages, but if you sing in Aremaic an Israeli can't follow what the song is about.
I'm particularly curious because the Mishnah, which is the Oral Law of the Jews, was recorded after he died. It was written so that the Oral Law would not be forgotten during the stress of persecution and conflict with ROme. It is in Hebrew.
The Gemmorah, which was written to explain the Mishnah, was written in the 5th century for the same reason the mishnah was, and it is in Aremaic.
THat would indicate to me that Jews spoke Hebrew in the 1st century as a regular language (since a book ment to promote study among the common folk was purposely written in Hebrew); and in the 5th century spoke Aremaic.
But anyway, they think Jesus spoke Aremaic because he speaks it in the NEw Testament on the cross, and the book of Revelation has the Aremaic phrase Talitakumi.
2006-12-24 11:32:30 · answer #2 · answered by 0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Assyrian and speak modern Aramaic, known as Assyrian. Jesus did speak Aramaic, look it up. The Assyrians were the first group of people to accept Christianity.
2006-12-26 13:09:59 · answer #3 · answered by ImAssyrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Our Father" was written in Aramaic. Jesus was Jewish, just like his mom and dad, and Aramaic was the going dialect at the time. That's just historical fact. If you want to say otherwise, then your strongest argument would be that there never was anyone preaching by that name in that area.
2006-12-24 09:49:55 · answer #4 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Beautiful thing about Yahoo Answers is you can think what ever you wish, that doesn't change the fact at all.
Jesus Christ spoke in Aramaic.
2006-12-24 09:49:46 · answer #5 · answered by drg5609 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, considering that the language spoken in Israel at the time was arameic...
Hebrew was spoken only by scholars amongst themselves. While jesus probabaly knew hebrew, most of the people did not.
2006-12-24 09:49:09 · answer #6 · answered by Chief BaggageSmasher 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus certainly spoke some language. Whatever you believe is totally meaningless and will make no difference.
2006-12-24 09:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Sabetudo 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What language should he have spoken? Why would he speak in any other language than the people he grew up with?
2006-12-24 09:48:07 · answer #8 · answered by bumppo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Come on, it's a fact.
Aramaic was Hebrew, as it was developed during and after the captivity in Babylon.
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2006-12-24 09:47:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That was the language of the Old and New Testament
2006-12-24 09:48:24 · answer #10 · answered by devora k 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋