Poetry is never separate from the social and historical circumstances in which it was written and read.
Poetry is never separate from the social and historical circumstances in which it was written and read.
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Jesus spoke in Aramaic, but His sayings were transcribed in Greek, a generation after His time on earth. Aramaic and Greek are different languages. Very different. The differences are profound. This fact cannot be emphasized enough.
But none of Jesus’s teachings were written down in Aramaic.
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Joy Williams | “Transition”