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

Mark_Day@lotus.com
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 03:40:54 GMT


> > PS The language in which the original Bible was written was aramaic.

> why do you say this? Very little of it is written in Aramaic.

I assume the root of this idea is the claim that Jesus spoke Aramaic. I am
not qualified to judge whether that claim is plausible in terms of time and
geography, but I have certainly seen it in multiple places.

However, as you are right to point out, this claim has no relationship to
the languages in which the OT and NT were written.

--Mark