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[Phil Stracchino]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> der Mouse wrote:
>>> Yale was founded by a group that wanted to make Hebrew the official
>>> language of the colonies, because Jesus spoke it.
>> Did he?  I thought the language of that place and time was Aramaic.
> 
> As it happens, Cymru asked the same question, and so I did a little
> research.  Turns out that during that period, both Hebrew and Aramaic
> are believed to have been in use side-by-side in Israel, Hebrew as the
> "mother tongue", Aramaic as an international lingua franca of trade
> throughout the Middle East.

'course, Sammy was way ahead of me.  :)



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