Mother tongue of Jesus
By jinisha
@jinisha (31)
India
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@J_peso (2430)
• United States
8 Nov 06
Besides Hebrew, Aramaic had already been used along side for some centuries. This language people spoke in most of the villages and towns of Palestine, particularly in the North (Nazareth, Capharnaum, etc.),where Jesus was educated, grew up, and spent the major portion of His life. It was also understood and spoken outside the confines of this region.
While in the villages such as Nazareth and Capharnaum, the dominant language, if not the only one, was Aramaic.
Jesus certainly spoke the Aramaic dialect of Galilee, but His words were “Jerusalem-ized”, so to speak, for the Early Church, and transmitted to us in the dialect of Jerusalem. It is well recorded that the difference between the Jerusalem and Galilee dialects was small and, all things considered, quite negligible.
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