6' Original Languages of the Bible

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6. Original Languages of the Bible
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• Aramaic
• Ezra 4 7, 18 712-26
• Daniel 2 4-7, 28 (Accadian?)
• 2 words in Genesis 3147
• A phrase in Jeremiah 1011

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• 2. Greek
• Book of Wisdom
• 2 Maccabees

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• 3. Supposedly originally in Hebrew but have come
  down to us only in the Greek version
• 1 Maccabees
• Judith / Ecclesiasticus
• Tobit / some parts of Esther
• Daniel 3 24-90 13-14

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• Hebrew since 1000 B.C.
• Aramaic since 550 B.C.
• Greek since 300 B.C.

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Traduttore, traditore!

• (An Italian adage)
• Every translator is a traitor. Every translator
  betrays something of the original. This is so
  because no translation of a literary work is an
  exact replica of the original.

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• Hebrew
• Language of the Israelites
• First written evidence 11th cent B.C.
• Golden Age 700-600 BC, time of Isaiah the
  prophet.
• Hellenistic period many Jews cant anymore use
  it.

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• Aramaic
• Language related to Hebrew
• It is the Babylonian language
• Became the commercial language in Mesopotamia.
• After exile, Aramaic supplanted Hebrew

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• Greek
• Greek Bible Koine Greek
• Common during the Alexander the Greats era
• Came from Ionic, Attic, Doric
• It was semiticized by the Jews
• Used mostly in the N.T.