atw: Re: OT Re: wheedling the needle

It is generally fairly agreed upon by modern, mainstream biblical 
scholars that -

- Matthew was originally written in Aramaic.
- John was the last gospel written, approx 100AD or CE.  Possibly by 
the apostle John, perhaps by a community he led, from information he 
gave.

You are right tho, in that the whole NT would have been available in 
Greek quite early on.

- Naomi

> > Just to be ultra-picky... from memory, Matthew was originally=20
> > written in Aramaic... :)
> 
> Not exactly. The language spoken at the time of those events was
> Aramaic but the gospel writers wrote their accounts in Greek, because
> that would ensure a wider circulation at the time. So I stand by my
> claim that the NT comes to us in Greek.
> 
> The gospel writers wrote somewhat after the events, and from memory,
> Matthew was the latest, a century or more. So maybe the words really
> were 'blessed are the cheesemakers' or 'blessed are they who fall in
> syrup', or some of Erisa's suggestions.
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