[B-Greek] Languages of Jesus

Daniel Riaño danielrr at eresmas.net
Thu Dec 18 06:30:05 EST 2003


Mitch Larramore wrote:

>I'm not sure I follow you. Does this confirm that
>Jesus spoke Greek or does it more so support he spoke
>Latin (due to heavy Roman influence)? What are you
>inferring?

Please forgive the delay in answering you. Of course this news do not 
"confirm" or proves anything of the sort, but it certainly gives 
strength to the view that Jesus did in fact knew Greek well, and that 
he could have been fluent in it, a supposition sustained in other 
independent data well discussed elsewhere in the  literature (the 
main reason aduced to dismiss that view in the recent past being that 
Nazareth was supposed to be a "a poor Jewish village on the periphery 
of the empire, where local families inhabited caves on the 
hillside"). As for the possibility that Jesus spoke Latin, I don't 
mean that such thing is unimaginable, but can't find right now a good 
reason to think that.

best,

Daniel



>--- Daniel RiaÒo <danielrr at eresmas.net> wrote:
>>  This is not the kind of subject commonly dealt with
>>  at BGreek, but
>>  any future discussion about whether Jesus spoke
>>  Greek or not should
>>  take this news into serious consideration (I think
>>  this notice wasn't
>>  mentioned in the List. My apologies if it is old
>  news to all).
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Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
Madrid, España




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