(September 30, 2015 at 12:25 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 11:54 am)Minimalist Wrote: Since we know that these so-called gospels were written in Greek, by Greek speakers and not a bunch of illiterate fishermen, it makes sense that when they needed to create a character they picked one from their own culture rather than the one they were purportedly writing about.
You do realize that Greek was a universal language, much like English is today. If your purpose was to spread the gospel, you'd write it in a language everyone could understand.
No you are wrong. Greek was the language of the educated. Kindly don't try to con yourself that a bunch of Galilean peasants ran around speaking Greek. They spoke Aramaic and in all likelihood were illiterate in that, too. In antiquity few people could read/write. And even among those who could a miniscule percentage could handle advanced texts or philosophy and history. Sure, Roman soldiers were taught enough Latin to read the duty rosters. Someone had to clean the latrines.
