tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post2184071373622668056..comments2024-03-25T14:27:40.121-05:00Comments on Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength: The Canonical Gospels: Jewish ContextWeekend Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-74509717726619477892008-08-21T21:53:00.000-05:002008-08-21T21:53:00.000-05:00Great to see this sort of thoughtful commentary on...Great to see this sort of thoughtful commentary on a blog -Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14770384445526387065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-74563550786894740392008-08-21T17:44:00.000-05:002008-08-21T17:44:00.000-05:00Hi thereI wasn't too surprised by Luke scoring...Hi there<BR/><BR/>I wasn't too surprised by Luke scoring higher than John, just considering their dating. By the time the Gospel of John was written, a much larger portion of readers for a gospel would have been Gentile. The part that makes the Jewish context stick so firmly to the pages in all four canonical gospels is simply that Jesus was born into a Jewish family and lived a Jewish life in a Jewish setting. <BR/><BR/>On Matthew -- the earliest comments we have on the book of Matthew mention that it was written in the language of the Hebrews (which I think most people take to mean Aramaic, back then) -- so while it's true that Jesus' quotes were written in that language, it didn't stop there: it was the whole book. In the early church fathers, you can hear references to the Hebrew version of the gospel being quoted and even used for reference and as if to check the translation into Greek for the first couple of centuries. There were people taking notes as if doing side-by-side comparisons from what they assumed was the original wording over to the Greek translations. <BR/><BR/>Take care & God bless<BR/>Anne / WFWeekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-76589654349733809762008-08-21T11:18:00.000-05:002008-08-21T11:18:00.000-05:00Initially I was a bit shocked by the fact Luke sco...Initially I was a bit shocked by the fact Luke scored higher than either Mark or John, both of which seem to have more references to Jewish scripture than Luke, but I suppose, as you said, there's more to culture than what they read.<BR/><BR/>I had read that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew, and Matthew even went so far as to write Jesus' quotes in Aramaic. Do you know to what degree this is true?Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04232209481041145155noreply@blogger.com