Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

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This, as it turns out, is a quotation from Psalm 22:1, which reads in Hebrew: ‘eli ‘eli lama ‘azavtani. In the first century AD, the Aramaic language was widespread throughout the Middle East, as is supported by the testimony of Josephus's The Jewish War. This argument is based on “biblical truth,” because it points to Acts 26:14, a text that reads in the ESV, “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,* ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? According to Dead Sea Scrolls archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Aramaic was the language of Hebrews until Simon Bar Kokhba's revolt (132 AD to 135 AD). The one urges to adultery and corruption, avarice and deceit; the other bids farewell to these things.

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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? One of the most striking Aramaic sentences found on the lips of Jesus in the Gospels is: eli eli lema sabachthani (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34 uses eloi instead of eli). During and before the time of Jesus, there wasn’t just one version of Aramaic being used in Judea and beyond.In the time of the Persian Empire (6th-4th century BC), Aramaic was the predominant language of the region. Once again, the Aramaic word is given with the transliteration, only this time, the word to be transliterated is more complicated. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Besides, a Spanish speaker would not use the verb “eres” with “embarazada,” since this verb implies a permanent situation, which is rarely the case when one is pregnant. Jesus proclaimed the reign of God and demonstrated its presence through doing mighty deeds, such as healings and exorcisms.

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The occasion for this burst of curiosity was the release of Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ. In Speaking of Jesus, Carl Medearis draws on his experience of international reconciliation between Muslims and Christians to remind us of the heart of the matter: Jesus. But we don’t know whether Jesus, upon finishing his biblical reading, continued to speak in Hebrew, or rather transitioned into Aramaic. But, given the likelihood that Jesus knew Hebrew as a second language, and given his frequent debates with Jewish religious teachers, and given the movement of his ministry to Judea, where Hebrew was more common, I am convinced that Jesus did teach in Hebrew at times. I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.Jesus quite probably had clients in Sepphoris who utilized his carpentry services, and he would have spoken with them in Greek. But if you’ve known people who have grown up in Europe, for example, they often can get by in several languages, including English, German, Spanish, and French, even if their first language is Italian. For many years it was common to envision Jesus as growing up in the countryside of Galilee, far removed from multi-cultural hodge-podge of the Roman Empire. So, even if he did speak Hebrew to Paul on the road to Damascus, this in no way invalidates the proposition that Jesus spoke Aramaic and/or Greek in other settings. Other Hebrew writings were being translated into Greek in Jerusalem (the book of Esther, for example, in 114 B.