Gad Barnea

Almost nothing.

Almost nothing.

Almost nothing.

As medical text and philosophical text as such prior to the, you know, to the maybe second century. Oh, wow. Before the common era. You know, it starts maybe if I want to be really generous, the late third century before the common era. But it's hard to date these things, of course. And why do you think that is?

As medical text and philosophical text as such prior to the, you know, to the maybe second century. Oh, wow. Before the common era. You know, it starts maybe if I want to be really generous, the late third century before the common era. But it's hard to date these things, of course. And why do you think that is?

As medical text and philosophical text as such prior to the, you know, to the maybe second century. Oh, wow. Before the common era. You know, it starts maybe if I want to be really generous, the late third century before the common era. But it's hard to date these things, of course. And why do you think that is?

Well, first of all, we don't really have a lot of Hebrew anywhere before the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew was not— Dead language? I mean, that's a really great question, and it wasn't completely dead. Some people obviously knew it because they were able to write the Hebrew Bible using Hebrew.

Well, first of all, we don't really have a lot of Hebrew anywhere before the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew was not— Dead language? I mean, that's a really great question, and it wasn't completely dead. Some people obviously knew it because they were able to write the Hebrew Bible using Hebrew.

Well, first of all, we don't really have a lot of Hebrew anywhere before the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew was not— Dead language? I mean, that's a really great question, and it wasn't completely dead. Some people obviously knew it because they were able to write the Hebrew Bible using Hebrew.

But the language that was spoken by the Yahwistic people living in Babylonia or Egypt or wherever was Aramaic mostly. Most of them spoke Aramaic most of that period. In Babylonia, there was still some Akkadian that was being used, of course, even into the Persian period. But Aramaic was the lingua franca.

But the language that was spoken by the Yahwistic people living in Babylonia or Egypt or wherever was Aramaic mostly. Most of them spoke Aramaic most of that period. In Babylonia, there was still some Akkadian that was being used, of course, even into the Persian period. But Aramaic was the lingua franca.

But the language that was spoken by the Yahwistic people living in Babylonia or Egypt or wherever was Aramaic mostly. Most of them spoke Aramaic most of that period. In Babylonia, there was still some Akkadian that was being used, of course, even into the Persian period. But Aramaic was the lingua franca.

It was the language that was spoken all over the place and the language that, for a lot of people, it became not just lingua franca, but also lingua materna, meaning the mother tongue. And so Aramaic was the central language for everybody. And we do have Aramaic text, of course, also among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

It was the language that was spoken all over the place and the language that, for a lot of people, it became not just lingua franca, but also lingua materna, meaning the mother tongue. And so Aramaic was the central language for everybody. And we do have Aramaic text, of course, also among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

It was the language that was spoken all over the place and the language that, for a lot of people, it became not just lingua franca, but also lingua materna, meaning the mother tongue. And so Aramaic was the central language for everybody. And we do have Aramaic text, of course, also among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

uh hebrew was more of um i wouldn't even say liturgical language we don't have any proof that it was liturgical language anywhere that's an important point to make it could have been but we don't have any proof of that um but but clearly it was preserved somehow because people were able to write um write the hebrew um hebrew text now

uh hebrew was more of um i wouldn't even say liturgical language we don't have any proof that it was liturgical language anywhere that's an important point to make it could have been but we don't have any proof of that um but but clearly it was preserved somehow because people were able to write um write the hebrew um hebrew text now

uh hebrew was more of um i wouldn't even say liturgical language we don't have any proof that it was liturgical language anywhere that's an important point to make it could have been but we don't have any proof of that um but but clearly it was preserved somehow because people were able to write um write the hebrew um hebrew text now

Again, it's important to point out, I'm not saying that everything in the Hebrew Bible was written in the Hellenistic period. Clearly there were texts that were much older as well, that were compiled, that were collected and then implemented and put together as part of this enterprise of putting together an authoritative source based on the same methodologies that were developed in Alexandria.

Again, it's important to point out, I'm not saying that everything in the Hebrew Bible was written in the Hellenistic period. Clearly there were texts that were much older as well, that were compiled, that were collected and then implemented and put together as part of this enterprise of putting together an authoritative source based on the same methodologies that were developed in Alexandria.