09-23-2003, 01:47 AM
drmlanc Wrote:"Aramaic was called "Hebrew", because that was the language of the "Hebrews." "
Awesome Akhi, but what did they call Hebrew?
Shlama Akhi,
You know that today we speak many, many modern dialects of Aramaic - right? We call all of them "Lishana Swadaya" - "the contemporary tongue."
But when we want to refer to the old, classical language (that of the Peshitta) - we call it "Lishana Ateeqa" - "the ancient tongue".
I presume that the Jews in 1st-century Israel would've done the same.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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