Aramaic bible in plain english good or no
And as a day laborer from a family of day laborers, he was in the lower classes. John lived in a tiny rural community where there almost certainly was no school (see my bibliographical references at the end of this post). There were not day schools the only people who got education were urban elites – the wealthy upper crust who lived in major urban areas. The vast majority of people in Galilee had zero education. How well educated were fishermen in rural Galilee? We actually have a reliable answer to that. To begin with, the New Testament itself indicates that the apostle John was a fisherman by trade. The problem, it seems, is that people have a massive misunderstanding about education levels in the ancient world, and of what people were capable of doing when it came to reading and writing. It’s clear that my thinking about this is not at *all* what (some? many?) other people think.
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Yes, I get asked this question a lot, or rather, get told this a lot – that if an illiterate Aramaic speaking day-laborer spent a lot of time abroad, he would be able to write a Gospel in a foreign language (it has been established on clear philological grounds that John’s Gospel, like the other books of the New Testament, is an original Greek composition, not a translation from Aramaic). Is he right? And if so how would you respond? However, I am being told by someone who is fairly conversant in these matters that John could easily have learned the Greek necessary to write the Gospel, since he lived for over 60 years on the mission field and that his Greek is the most basic of the NT. I seem to remember you writing that the Greek of that Gospel was good and fairly nuanced. You mention in your book Forgeries and Counter Forgeries that John most likely did not write the Gospel attributed to him as he almost certainly could not write in Greek.
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Was John the Son of Zebedee Capable of Writing a Gospel? (No!)īy paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on Septem
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