Language contact has been for many centuries the aim of scholars belonging to such different fields as historians, philosophers, linguists, psychologists and politicians are. One of the very first questions they posed was which language was chosen for writing and praying the Holy Gospels. Moreover, this matter led to another question, i.e. which language Jesus spoke. Ancient Palestine is known indeed as a cultural melting-pot since the second millennium BC at least. This paper would provide a philological analysis suggested by the Greek literary language of the Hebrew historian Flavius Josephus. So would this ancient question be understood from a different perspective
Pontius Pilate's trilingual inscription on the cross of Jesus Christ has received considerable schol...
Josephus researchers have occasionally wondered, surprisingly perhaps, whether the famous priest fro...
Josephus researchers have occasionally wondered, surprisingly perhaps, whether the famous priest fro...
The evidence is as yet inconclusive as to what language Jesus would have normally spoken to the Jewi...
Josephus seems to be a typical Hellenistic Jewish author of the Diaspora. But we have to keep in min...
In the first century C.E., Palestine was a country of many languages, as were most contries of the M...
textAlmost fifty-five years following the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, academic studies are now...
textAlmost fifty-five years following the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, academic studies are now...
There is no doubt that in Jesus’ times the three ancient languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek were ...
Long before the writings of the New Testament gospels, where Jesus was being proclaimed as the Son o...
Long before the writings of the New Testament gospels, where Jesus was being proclaimed as the Son o...
Long before the writings of the New Testament gospels, where Jesus was being proclaimed as the Son o...
The theory that Jesus of Nazareth spoke and taught exclusively in Aramaic rather than Hebrew achieve...
In Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Syriac language was part of several debates, including on...
In the first chapter of this work the language of St. Matthew's gospel is set in the context of gene...
Pontius Pilate's trilingual inscription on the cross of Jesus Christ has received considerable schol...
Josephus researchers have occasionally wondered, surprisingly perhaps, whether the famous priest fro...
Josephus researchers have occasionally wondered, surprisingly perhaps, whether the famous priest fro...
The evidence is as yet inconclusive as to what language Jesus would have normally spoken to the Jewi...
Josephus seems to be a typical Hellenistic Jewish author of the Diaspora. But we have to keep in min...
In the first century C.E., Palestine was a country of many languages, as were most contries of the M...
textAlmost fifty-five years following the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, academic studies are now...
textAlmost fifty-five years following the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, academic studies are now...
There is no doubt that in Jesus’ times the three ancient languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek were ...
Long before the writings of the New Testament gospels, where Jesus was being proclaimed as the Son o...
Long before the writings of the New Testament gospels, where Jesus was being proclaimed as the Son o...
Long before the writings of the New Testament gospels, where Jesus was being proclaimed as the Son o...
The theory that Jesus of Nazareth spoke and taught exclusively in Aramaic rather than Hebrew achieve...
In Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Syriac language was part of several debates, including on...
In the first chapter of this work the language of St. Matthew's gospel is set in the context of gene...
Pontius Pilate's trilingual inscription on the cross of Jesus Christ has received considerable schol...
Josephus researchers have occasionally wondered, surprisingly perhaps, whether the famous priest fro...
Josephus researchers have occasionally wondered, surprisingly perhaps, whether the famous priest fro...