Re: Passion of the Christ, languages

From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:36:51 -0400

"Felix Oscar" <tree01@inreach.com> wrote in message
news:22986a60.0409141016.62712fbf@posting.google.com...
> Which parts were in Aramaic and which parts were in Hebrew?

Which parts of what? (People tend not to read the subject as part of the
message; they may not even notice the subject.)

Even assuming your readers have read the subject, they might *still* ask
which parts of what? The actual events? The recounting in the Gospels? The
play staged in Oberammergau? The motion picture?

> Obviously Pilate and his men spoke in Greek.

Why is that any more or less obvious than what anyone else spoke? Wouldn't
he "obviously" have spoken Roman?

> Is the placement of the three languages agreed upon by linguists and
historians?

Largely but not completely, and based entirely on logical induction, since
the Gospels themselves are the only source for the story, and they don't
say.

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