[B-Greek] When is it appropriate to bring in Hebrew and Aramaic in a Greek NT discussion?
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 16:53:03 EDT 2009
[RB]
>>> This coming November there will be a panel at ETS discussing
bilingualism, diglossia, and the Greek NT. My paper is on
penteglossia [high and low Greek, high and low Hebrew, Aramaic
(we don't high a high/low situation with Aramaic, they were writing
close to what they were speaking, it appears. Greek and Hebrew, on the
other hand had both literary registers and spoken registers that were
distinct and recognizable even if inevitably on some kind of scalar cline.)]
All y'all come now ta N'Orleans.>>>
[Daniel Buck]
>> What
sort of speech, then, bewrayed Simon Peter? Was it not a backwoods
spoken variety of Aramaic that differed from the more official standard
of Jerusalem?>>
[Michael Aubrey]
> Regional accents are not the same thing has literary and spoken registers.>
Yes, Michael is correct. In addition, there is no mention of language.
Mishnaic Hebrew would have produced the same reaction if spoken with
a Galilean accent, and for that matter, colloquial Greek spoken with a
Galilean accent could have fit the scenario. Having lived in multilingual
environments, I would not have been surprised to have heard any one of
the three languages if I were to have walked up to a fire in that courtyard,
nor would I expect that the chatter would even stay in one language
throughout the evening.
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Randall Buth
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