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Aramaic: the Humble Language that Overcame the Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires

Aramaic: the Humble Language that Overcame the Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires

by David Tollen | Sep 25, 2011 | Classical Civilization, The Postclassical Age

Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew living in Judea, yet he didn’t preach in Hebrew, and he may not even have spoken it. Judea was then part of the Roman Empire, yet Jesus didn’t speak Latin either. Of course, Greek played a larger role than Latin in Judea and the...
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