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For some time, it was held that Celtic stood in an especially close relation to the Italic branch; some scholars even spoke of a period when an Italo-Celtic “nation” existed, toward the end of the 2nd millennium bc.
Because the KJV translators did not have access to the early manuscripts that have this reading, the italics in 1 John 2:23 may be indicating that the clause comes from the Latin Vulgate, similar to the practice of the Great Bible. Third, there are many inconsistencies in the use of italics in the King James translation.
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As Watkins (1966) puts it, "the community of -ī in Italic and Celtic is attributable to early contact, rather than to an original unity". The assumed period of language contact could then be later and perhaps continue well into the first millennium BC.
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IF Jesus was born in c.6—4 BC and when He was at age 12 talking with and listening to the learned teachers/rabbis in the Temple in Jerusalem, that would have been in c. 6—8 AD. The rabbis listened to Him and even asked the very young Jesus questions. What language did Jesus and the rabbis speak?
Sep 12, 2017 · The answer to both of these questions is, NO. In fact, the words in italics in the King James Bible are words that were added by the translators to help the reader. This is usually necessary when translating from one language to another because a word in one language may not have a corollary word in English and idiomatic expressions often do ...
Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek were the dominant languages used by the populations residing in Judea and Galilee. Aramaic was the prevailing spoken language among the Jewish population and therefore, it's widely accepted that it was Jesus's primary language. Hebrew, a closely related Semitic language, was chiefly used in religious contexts.
Turning to the New Testament, we encounter various clues illuminating the language Jesus used to communicate with his disciples and the crowds. While the Gospels were composed in Greek, scholars argue that Jesus likely conversed with his followers in Aramaic, as evidenced by several instances of Aramaic phrases preserved in the text.
