Re: Satan Re: [Slate] American Religious fervor, by the numbers

Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:50:19 -0700 (PDT)


It is kinda difficult to pinpoint the origin of the documents
currently called The Bible (Qumran scrolls? earlier (Sumerian)
sources?). Unless one arbitrarily sets the date to around ~1 A.D, that
is.

Jeff Bone writes:
> > PS The language in which the original Bible was written was aramaic.
>
> I understood it to be Dhuraic. That's an antiquated language from which
> Aramaic is a more regularized dialectic decendant, isn't it? Any
> linguists in the crowd?