Asia minor, Hebrew and relevation
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Below you will find a website and a selected quote that may offer some insight.
It appears that Greek was the primary language, but plenty spoke Aramaic. There were several pockets of Hebrews in Asia Minor as the Bible notes (but you have to search diligently to find that out). That doesn't mean they spoke Hebrew though... There were also several local dialects spoken including a now extinct celtic (think more french and less irish) that was spoken in Galatia. Armenian is also in the mix.
Some of the research I've read suggests that many were bilingual with Greek being the one common language.
Here is the link and a selection of text.
https://www.quora.com/What-language...peak-prior-to-the-arrival-of-the-Seljuk-Turks
Skip still further a thousand years, to the time of Christ, and Anatolia is again almost unrecognizable. Greek-speakers have now lived hugging the western coast for hundreds of years. Iranians have settled wide swaths of eastern Anatolia, the ancestors of the Kurds and Zazakipeoples. Greek is newly implanted all over western and central Anatolia, while Armenian is widely spoken throughout the east and south. Populations of Aramaic speakers unknown at the end of the Bronze Age have been settled in the extreme south for centuries. The Galatians, a Celtic speaking-people that migrated into Anatolia in the Hellenistic period and better known as the recipients of St. Paul’s evangelism, still speak their ancestral language and would probably continue to do until around the time of Justinian. Like them, some communities of Lydian, Lycian and Phrygian speakers still exist in their traditional lands in the south and west, and now occasionally still use a Greek-derived alphabet when written down. These languages will cling on to existence for a few more centuries, but not many more. Latin, the language of the Roman rulers, is seen in public monuments in administrative centers, but almost nowhere else.
It appears that Greek was the primary language, but plenty spoke Aramaic. There were several pockets of Hebrews in Asia Minor as the Bible notes (but you have to search diligently to find that out). That doesn't mean they spoke Hebrew though... There were also several local dialects spoken including a now extinct celtic (think more french and less irish) that was spoken in Galatia. Armenian is also in the mix.
Some of the research I've read suggests that many were bilingual with Greek being the one common language.
Here is the link and a selection of text.
https://www.quora.com/What-language...peak-prior-to-the-arrival-of-the-Seljuk-Turks
Skip still further a thousand years, to the time of Christ, and Anatolia is again almost unrecognizable. Greek-speakers have now lived hugging the western coast for hundreds of years. Iranians have settled wide swaths of eastern Anatolia, the ancestors of the Kurds and Zazakipeoples. Greek is newly implanted all over western and central Anatolia, while Armenian is widely spoken throughout the east and south. Populations of Aramaic speakers unknown at the end of the Bronze Age have been settled in the extreme south for centuries. The Galatians, a Celtic speaking-people that migrated into Anatolia in the Hellenistic period and better known as the recipients of St. Paul’s evangelism, still speak their ancestral language and would probably continue to do until around the time of Justinian. Like them, some communities of Lydian, Lycian and Phrygian speakers still exist in their traditional lands in the south and west, and now occasionally still use a Greek-derived alphabet when written down. These languages will cling on to existence for a few more centuries, but not many more. Latin, the language of the Roman rulers, is seen in public monuments in administrative centers, but almost nowhere else.
Revelation was written in Greek, and they knew a form of Greek specific to their region.
He did not do so. He used the Greek letters Chi, Xi, and Stigma.
Chi = 600
Xi = 60
Stigma = 6
Then Why would john make nero's name 666 using hebrew if his intended audience didn't know hebrew
Right six hundred and sixty six
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