The Language Environment of First Century Judaea : Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels. Volume Two /
edited by Randall Buth and R. Steven Notley.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (463 pages)
- Jewish and Christian Perspectives Ser. .
- Jewish and Christian Perspectives Ser. .
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Introduction: Language Issues Are Important for Gospel Studies -- Sociolinguistic Issues in a Trilingual Framework -- The Origins of the "Exclusive Aramaic Model" in the Nineteenth Century: Methodological Fallacies and Subtle Motives -- The Use of Hebrew and Aramaic in Epigraphic Sources of the New Testament Era -- Hebraisti in Ancient Texts: Does Ἑβραϊστί Ever Mean "Aramaic"? -- The Linguistic Ethos of the Galilee in the First Century C.E. -- Hebrew versus Aramaic as Jesus' Language: Notes on Early Opinions by Syriac Authors -- Literary Issues in a Trilingual Framework -- Hebrew, Aramaic, and the Differing Phenomena of Targum and Translation in the Second Temple Period and Post-Second Temple Period -- Distinguishing Hebrew from Aramaic in Semitized Greek Texts, with an Application for the Gospels and Pseudepigrapha -- Non-Septuagintal Hebraisms in the Third Gospel: An Inconvenient Truth -- Reading Gospel Texts in a Trilingual Framework -- Hebrew-Only Exegesis: A Philological Approach to Jesus' Use of the Hebrew Bible -- Jesus' Petros-petra Wordplay (Matthew 16:18): Is It Greek, Aramaic, or Hebrew? -- The Riddle of Jesus' Cry from the Cross: The Meaning of ηλι ηλι λαμα σαβαχθανι (Matthew 27:46) and the Literary Function of ελωι ελωι λειμα σαβαχθανι (Mark 15:34) -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Subject Index.
The Language Environment of First Century Judea challenges the long-held assumption of New Testament scholarship that only two languages, Aramaic and Greek, were in common use in the land of Israel in the first century. Hebrew should now be moved out of its restricted, marginal status within first-century language use and with significant implicati.
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Bible.-- New Testament --Language, style.
Synoptic problem. Language and languages. Judaea (Region).