atw: Re: OT Re: wheedling the needle
- From: "Naomi Kramer" <nkr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:13:51 +1000
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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