Aramaic and the Church Fathers

• Over the last few lessons, we have been looking at the use of Aramaic in Israel in the first century A.D. We saw that Josephus, the most important Jewish historian at the time, records clearly that Aramaic was “the language of his country” (meaning Israel!)
• We also explored the use of Aramaic in the New Testament, seeing that there are a smattering of words and phrases in the New Testament which are Aramaic in origin. Most of these are uniquely, and specifically, Aramaic, rather than Hebrew.