It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.
From Jay Parini
The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.
Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.
I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
In a sense, I wrote the book about Jesus that I wanted to read.
I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
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