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Aram was the ancient city now known as Damascus, and Aramaeans were its inhabitants. Aramaic was the language of Aram, which was wisely chosen by by the Persians as the common language of their new empire. Aram had already been a great military and trading power, so the language was already well known in parts of the empire. And being a Semitic language, very similar, for example, to Hebrew, it would be easy for much of the empire to adopt.
First of all the fact that Jesus would have spoken Aramaic would not make him an Aramaean. After Alexander defeated the Persians, most of the Near East adopted Greek as their common language, but the Jews perversely stayed with Aramaic. So all Palestinian Jews spoke Aramaic, whether they lived in Galilee or Judea.
The majority of Galilean Jews were not true ethnic Jews, in that they were not immigrants from Judea in the south. Rather, they were forcibly converted to Judaism in the second century BCE by the Maccabeans. Before this, they were pagans, much like their neighbours in the region, including the Aramaeans. If Jesus was a Galilean, it is logically possible, with fluid borders, that he was descended from Aramaeans.
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What is an Aramaean?
An Aramaean is a member of an ancient Semitic people who spoke the Aramaic language and inhabited a region in present-day Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. They had a significant influence on the development of languages and cultures in the Middle East.
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What nationality was Job in the Bible?
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Who were the 5 bible poets?
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus and Jesus.
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Who wrote Jesus Jesus rest your head?
i am pretty sure that Pual wrote, "Jesus Jesus rest your head"!!!!!!!:) i love god and Jesus!!!!!!!:)))
What Jesus full name?
Jesus Christ
The words to the Jesus in me loves the Jesus in you so easy?
the Jesus in me loves the Jesus in you the Jesus in me loves the Jesus in you so easy so easy so easy so easy to love
Who was Jesus for Mother Teresa?
Jesus was everything to her. In her words: "Jesus is my God, Jesus is my Spouse, Jesus is my Life, Jesus is my only Love, Jesus is my All in All; Jesus is my Everything." You can tell how much he inspired her, as She gave up her own life in order to fulfil her wishes and became a nun.
How did Jesus prefigure Jesus?
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What is the plural of Jesus?
It is Jesus.
