Excerpt from The Words of Jesus: Considered in the Light of Post-Biblical Jewish Writings and the Aramaic Language As the proof has been offered with comparative frequency of late 1 showing that the Hebraists, 2 that is, the Hebrew Speaking Jews of Palestine, who formed a class distinct from the Hellenists, did not in reality speak Hebrew but Aramaic, it seems superfluous to raise a fresh discussion on all the details of this question. Yet, while reference is made to my Grammatik des jiid.-pal. Aramaisch for information on all the Aramaic expressions that occur in the New Testament and Josephus, the most important sources of evi dence now involved must here be Shortly summarised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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