Op Ed on Haaretz on Jesus' Languages, Bibi, the Pope

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Barry Hofstetter

Re: Op Ed on Haaretz on Jesus' Languages, Bibi, the Pope

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RandallButh wrote:Irony also depends on knowing the expected response.
Otherwise someone might think that Jesus spoke Erasmian.
Jesus did speak Erasmian, but with an accent that sounded like reconstructed Koine.
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Re: Op Ed on Haaretz on Jesus' Languages, Bibi, the Pope

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Barry Hofstetter wrote:
RandallButh wrote:Irony also depends on knowing the expected response.
Otherwise someone might think that Jesus spoke Erasmian.
Jesus did speak Erasmian, but with an accent that sounded like reconstructed Koine.
He spoke King James' British English - just like Moses :-)
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Shirley Rollinson wrote:
He spoke King James' British English - just like Moses :-)
No, Moses sounded just like Charlton Heston.
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Re: Op Ed on Haaretz on Jesus' Languages, Bibi, the Pope

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A rebuttal to a rebuttal has been posted on the BLC blog. It may provide some more background, citations, and resources:

http://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/m ... w-speaker/

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