Aramaic Word Study
Exploring the Language of the New Testament
Jesus and the Apostles spoke Aramaic, the native language of Israel and the surrounding territories at the time. As religious Jews, they also knew Hebrew because the Torah was written and read in Hebrew, but their everyday language was Aramaic.
Today, mainstream Bible scholars agree that portions of the Greek New Testament, especially the Gospels were taken from what was already written down in Aramaic. Some scholars believe most of the original New Testament was in Aramaic.
Here’s the question: If Jesus and the Apostles all spoke, preached, and ministered in Aramaic, and if Jesus’ words and the story of his life were first written down in Aramaic why don’t we study what they said in Aramaic?
The Sermon on the Mount was spoken in Aramaic to the crowd on the shores of Galilee. Every parable Jesus shared was spoken in Aramaic. When Jesus sat with His disciples on the Mount of Olives and told them what would happen at the end of this age, He spoke to them in Aramaic.
If Christians believe that every word written in the Bible is sacred, even though the Bible we read today is a copy of a copy, and a translation of a translation, shouldn’t we also at least consider that the actual words Jesus spoke, in the language He spoke them, and the language the first gospel writers wrote them in are also inspired, and worth exploring?
Join ancient languages scholar Chaim Bentorah as he guides us in exploring the language of the New Testament.
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A very brilliant bright sheet/mantle made of gold threads swaying above me, then 2 hands holding a silver wicker basket-tray filled to overflowing with vibrant green herbs, brings and places it in front of me, on the table I am seated at. Then I awoke.
Gold = divine.
Green herbs = food.
Here it is, you are serving ‘Divine Food.’
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