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[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

No, they were from Palestinian areas, which was Aramaic. There is evidence that our Greek gospels are based on translations of lost originals. Although a few not-so-carefully-copied and heavily revised copies of Matthew in Hebrew have survived.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

no they in greek

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Just because our current documents are in Greek doesn't mean that the authors spoke Greek, or even that the original writing was in Greek.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

it was in greek sorry

jesus and the guys speaking aramaic were illiterate so it makes sense, someone wrote it in greek later from oral teachings

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

That's possible, but that's still someone else who translated their ideas into Greek.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

yeah it helps explain also why they're not trustworthy, written 100 years after jesus died, the story can change many times thru oral tellings of it.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

It wasn't 100 years, and they clearly copied from written sources.

But the church fathers surely added a lot of their own material.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

70 to a hundred years

there is truth buried in there tho, a revolutionary movement determined to to oust romans and corrupt high priests. That movement succeeded in 70 AD.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Some of Paul's letters are from the 50s AD, only about 20 years afterward. The only reason they say everything else is after 70 is because of the part about the temple falling down. But in all fairness that comes from bias against the possibility of a fulfilled prophecy, because they don't like the idea of Jesus being real (but even if you don't believe in it, something like that could easily have been a coincidence, especially when it was already only a matter of time. Or even if a coincidence was implausible, it could be an interpolation).

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

no they were from much later

tho it's possible the dead sea scrolls are from paul and james. Lot of controversy with them