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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8678088" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Alexander the Great in the context of "Hellenistic" policies founded new Greek-speaking communities across the known the world. To some degree, Rome too embraced this international use of the Greek language.</p><p></p><p>Nevertheless, around the time of the events in the New Testament, it is the indigenous languages that dominated locally.</p><p></p><p>For example, most people in Israel spoke Hebrew. There were several Hebrew dialects within "Classical" Hebrew going on simultaneously. The features of these Hebrew dialects correspond roughly somewhere between Late Biblical Hebrew and Early Mishnaic Hebrew. But the phonetics and sometimes the vocabulary differed noticeably.</p><p></p><p>Most people are speaking Hebrew. Nevertheless, a significant minority are still using Aramaic as the international language because of prominent connections to communities around Babylon. To a lesser degree, a smaller minority is using Greek as international language. Most interactions with the Roman Empire are in Greek.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, the names of the students of Jesus reflect this multilingual community. Bar-Ptolomai (Bartholomew) is an Egyptian Aramaic name. Andreas (Andrew) is a Greek name. The names of Jesus and his own family are Hebrew, including Yhoshua, Yaakov, Miryam, and Yosef. I agree with an archeological opinion that Jesus spelled his name with a traditional (bibilical) Hebrew spelling (probably with the letters he and more than one vav יהושוע), but pronounced it according to the Jerusalem dialect, more like Yeshua (because of the softening of guttural sounds and the palatalization of the sh-sibilant).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the situation in Egypt was similar, with most speaking the indigenous Egyptian language (surviving today in the form of Coptic). Mostly Aramaic was the international language, but communities like Alexandria were prominent Greek-speakers.</p><p></p><p>Heh, generally, almost no one in these areas spoke Latin − maybe not even the Romans themselves who tended to switch to Greek.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8678088, member: 58172"] Alexander the Great in the context of "Hellenistic" policies founded new Greek-speaking communities across the known the world. To some degree, Rome too embraced this international use of the Greek language. Nevertheless, around the time of the events in the New Testament, it is the indigenous languages that dominated locally. For example, most people in Israel spoke Hebrew. There were several Hebrew dialects within "Classical" Hebrew going on simultaneously. The features of these Hebrew dialects correspond roughly somewhere between Late Biblical Hebrew and Early Mishnaic Hebrew. But the phonetics and sometimes the vocabulary differed noticeably. Most people are speaking Hebrew. Nevertheless, a significant minority are still using Aramaic as the international language because of prominent connections to communities around Babylon. To a lesser degree, a smaller minority is using Greek as international language. Most interactions with the Roman Empire are in Greek. Interestingly, the names of the students of Jesus reflect this multilingual community. Bar-Ptolomai (Bartholomew) is an Egyptian Aramaic name. Andreas (Andrew) is a Greek name. The names of Jesus and his own family are Hebrew, including Yhoshua, Yaakov, Miryam, and Yosef. I agree with an archeological opinion that Jesus spelled his name with a traditional (bibilical) Hebrew spelling (probably with the letters he and more than one vav יהושוע), but pronounced it according to the Jerusalem dialect, more like Yeshua (because of the softening of guttural sounds and the palatalization of the sh-sibilant). Anyway, the situation in Egypt was similar, with most speaking the indigenous Egyptian language (surviving today in the form of Coptic). Mostly Aramaic was the international language, but communities like Alexandria were prominent Greek-speakers. Heh, generally, almost no one in these areas spoke Latin − maybe not even the Romans themselves who tended to switch to Greek. [/QUOTE]
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