Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >>>> See 2nd letter of Peter, Chapter 2, verse 16, where it says: >>>> "the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness >>>> of the prophet". >>> I wonder what did Peter REALLY wrote? >> Something in Greek or Latin, I suspect, most probably Latin. > Aramaic or Hebrew maybe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:27:50 -0500 > Subject: [arachne] Re: The Bible says it's smart to be a dumb ass > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:11:26 +0011, Peter Lawrence wrote: >>>>> I wonder what did Peter REALLY wrote? >>>> Something in Greek or Latin, I suspect, most probably Latin. >>> Aramaic or Hebrew maybe. >> Writing (or more likely dictating, like most of Paul), for a readership >> in the eastern mediterranean, Greek is more likely. But there are a lot >> of canonical studies out there you can go to for the straight goods. > All of the books that make up the New Testament were written in Greek. > The Old Testament was written in Hebrew. > Jesus probably spoke Aramaic. Hi gang, Yes ... Peter's letter was written in Greek. That was the "trade language" used throughout the Roman Empire, especially in the eastern Mediterranean area. For any writings from that time period, Greek would be used unless the potential audience was exclusively a small group using a different language and the message wasn't intended to be shared outside the homogenous group. The Greek word translated as "ass" in some older English versions of the bible is (in English letters, I don't have a Greek script available) pronounced "hoop-od-zoog'-ee-on", which means "an animal under the yoke". Common usage of the word in Palestine in the first century referred to a donkey. The word, by the way, refers to neither male or female, specifically. Bob ~ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --