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• Jesus of Nazareth is born.
• Around the time of Jesus and living through the Jewish wars against the Romans in A.D. 70, Josephus the historian writes his many detailed and long histories - The Antiquities of the Jews and The Jewish Wars. Josephus documents that Aramaic is “the language of our country”, i.e. the dominant language of Israel. His history was initially written in Aramaic, but then translated into Greek - a foreign language which Josephus says that he struggles with, and still can’t pronounce properly.