HIST 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sepphoris, Official Language
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2:47 pm: mark came from a man john-mark; dictated by peter written by mark, matthew (a tax collector, luke wrote a sequel also called the book of acts. Book of acts includes a companion luke in the 2nd half: john comes from the man writing in the third-person who is the beloved disciple. Language: street language was aramaic and hebrew is only used in the temple and for religion, official language is actually greek and if you are educated you will be speaking. Alexander the great was conquering and loved greek everything so language and many other things changed. Gospels were all written in greek but jesus spoke aramaic, so anything that didn"t correctly translate we throw out as he didn"t say it. Jesus worked in sepphoris, so he may have known a little greek due to everyday interaction" makes above test invalid. Multiple attestation: if something happened in all 4 gospels then it must have happened.
