No random defaming, I'm asking this only because I don't know the answer...
What language(s) did Jesus speak?
Please answer only if you are not retarded.
Thank you.
2007-01-08 11:35:58 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Aramaic Language, Semitic language closely related to Hebrew. Originally the language of the Aramaeans (see Aram), it was used, in many dialectical forms, in Mesopotamia and Syria before 1000BC and later became the lingua franca of the Middle East (see Assyro-Babylonian Language). Aramaic survived the fall of Nineveh (612BC) and Babylon (539BC) and remained the official language of the Persian Empire (539-337BC). Ancient inscriptions in Aramaic have been found over a vast area extending from Egypt to China.
Before the Christian era, Aramaic had become the language of the Jews in Palestine. Jesus preached in Aramaic, and parts of the Old Testament and much of the rabbinical literature were written in that language. Christian Aramaic, usually called Syriac, also developed an extensive literature, especially from the 4th to 7th centuries.
Aramaic began to decline in the 7th century AD. Aramaic survives today in Eastern and Western dialects, mostly as the language of Christians living in a few scattered communities in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
2007-01-08 11:41:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus undoubtedly spoke Aramaic, and probably enough greek to be able to converse with traders in the market.
Interestingly Allah ( Ilah ) is the name for God in Aramaic the language that Jesus spoke.
Jesus never prayed to God or even referred to God using any word but Allah.
People who say that Allah is a false God do not know what they are talking about, and they are most certainly not following the true teachings of Jesus.
Love and blessings.
don
2007-01-08 11:44:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus, son of Mary, probably spoke, wrote, and read the common languages of the time -- even as would most of the men and likely many of the women. Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. It seems likely that even fishermen, who were called "unlearned", spoke those languages.
Of course after His Crucifixion and Resurrection He would no longer have the limitations of his humanity and so no doubt would have been literate in all languages..
2007-01-08 11:47:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
. We have no certain way of knowing whether he could speak Greek or Latin, but in his teaching ministry he regularly used either Aramaic or the highly Aramaized popular Hebrew. When Paul addressed the mob in the Temple, it is said that he spoke Hebrew (Acts 21:40). Scholars generally have taken this to mean Aramaic, but it is quite possible that a popular Hebrew was then the common tongue among the Jews.”—Biblical Archaeology, 1963, p. 243.......................It is possible that Jesus and his early disciples, such as the apostle Peter, at least at times spoke Galilean Aramaic, Peter being told on the night Christ was taken into custody: “Certainly you also are one of them, for, in fact, your dialect gives you away.” (Mt 26:73) ...........Jesus Christ as a man on earth could well have used a form of Hebrew and a dialect of Aramaic
2007-01-08 11:42:54 · answer #4 · answered by dfg q 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He spoke Aramaic according to the Gospel of Mark. That is why Mel Gibson had Jesus speaking Aramaic in The Passion of the Christ.
2007-01-08 11:42:32 · answer #5 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What language did Jesus really speak during his ministry?
It's very important to know that the Hebrew and Greek letters that were found, are only translations that were written 150 to 300 years after Jesus.
2007-01-08 11:41:49 · answer #6 · answered by House Speaker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
JC spoke Aramaic. By his time Hebrew had long died out as a language and was only used in prayer. The Babylonians made sure of that.
2007-01-08 11:45:29 · answer #7 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aramaic, not Arabic. Aramaic is an ancient language.
Aramaic is one of the Semitic languages, an important group of languages known almost from the beginning of human history and including also Arabic, Hebrew, Ethiopic, and Akkadian (ancient Babylonian and Assyrian). It is particularly closely related to Hebrew, and was written in a variety of alphabetic scripts. (What is usually called "Hebrew" script is actually an Aramaic script.)
2007-01-08 11:41:52 · answer #8 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently his native language would have been ARAMAIC, but Hebrew was probably used in the synagogue like the catholics used to use Latin.
There there was also other languages floating around like Greek, Latin and persian (what we now call Farsi)
2007-01-08 12:12:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus reportedly spoke Hebrew with an Aramaic accent.
2007-01-08 11:39:53 · answer #10 · answered by montrealissima 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋