Friday, September 11, 2015

Did Jesus speak Greek?

THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION:
Did Jesus Speak Greek?

Contrary to contemporary scholarship, I find that Greek was more widely used in both written and oral form by Jesus, his disciples, and the Jews who inhabited first-century Palestine. Interestingly, the evidence reveals that Greek became the dominant language spoken among Jews and Gentiles in Galilee in the first century CE.

See Also: Did Jesus Speak Greek? (Pickwick Publications, 2015).

By G. Scott Gleaves
Dean and Associate Professor
Kearley Graduate School of Theology
Faulkner University
Montgomery, AL
September 2015
Related posts here and here and links.

UPDATE: Larry Hurtado also has recent related comments noted here and see also here.