Karl, you're surely right that Jesus' default texts of the OT would have been in Hebrew, though he might have also learned some Targumic renderings by heart in Aramaic, as well. I wasn't claiming he did read the LXX, only that he probably could have if he chose, since Galilee was a bilingual area and it was apparently common for Jewish folks there to learn Greek as well as Aramaic when growing up. I certainly don't think he would have gone with the LXX instead of the Hebrew. That would have been uncommon for a Jew born in Israel, to say the least. Not impossible, but improbable.
On 9/7/12, K Randolph <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug: > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Doug Belot <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Why do you all seem sure that Jesus read from the Hebrew and not the >> Septuagint. >> > > Because Jesus was a good Jewish boy, who grew up in Galilee speaking > Aramaic while learning Hebrew in the Schul. We know he spoke Aramaic > because of transliterations in the New Testament of some of his statements > in Aramaic. So what is unrealistic is to claim that he read the LXX. > >> >> doug belot > > > Karl W. Randolph. > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > -- "In the world you will have trouble. But, be brave! I have defeated the world!" —John 16:33, DDV (Dewayne Dulaney Version) My Bible blogs: http://my.opera.com/Loquor/blog/ and http://hasopher.preachersfiles.com/ Read my translation of the Gospel of John on Let Ancient Voices Speak, http://letancientvoicesspeak.preachersfiles.com (Coming soon). _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
