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THE 4TH PHILOSOPHY: HERE IS WHAT I KNOW ABOUT NATSERET AT THE TIME OF YEHOSHUA'S BIRTH: THERE WAS LITTLE THERE FOR A WOODWORKER TO DO? That is, after all, what tradition claims was Yesh's occupation: a 'TEKTON' - a woodworker or builder - though it bears mentioning that there is only one verse in the whole of the New Testament in which this claim about him is made (Mark 6:3) ~!
If that claim is true, then as an artisan & day laborer, Yesh would have possibly belonged to the lowest class of peasants in first-century Palestine, just above the indigent, the beggar, and the slave. The Romans used the term TEKTON as slang for almost any uneducated or illiterate peasant, & Yeshua was likely both?! Illiteracy rates in 1st-century Palestine were staggeringly high, particularly for the poor ~~
It is estimated that nearly 97% of the Jewish peasantry could neither read nor write, a not so unexpected figure for predominantly oral societies such as the one in which "Jesus" is supposed to have lived, then & there? Certainly the Hebrew Scriptures played a prominent role in the lives of the Jewish people! But the overwhelming majority of Jews in Jesus's time would have had only the most rudimentary grasp of Hebrew, barely enough to understand the scriptures when they were read to them at the synagogue?
Hebrew was the language of the scribes & scholars of the law - the language of learning! Peasants like this YESH would have had quite enormous difficulty communicating in Hebrew, even in its colloquial form, which is why much of scriptures had been translated into Ara-maic, THE primary language of the Jewish peasantry: the language of Yeshu. It is possible that Yesh had some basic knowledge of the lingua Franca, Greek, of the Roman Empire (ironically, Latin was the language least used in the lands occupied by Rome), enough per-haps to negotiate contracts and deal with customers, but almost certainly not enough to preach! The only Jews who could communicate comfortably in Greek were the Hellenized Herodian elite, the priestly aristocracy in Judaea, and the more educated Diaspora Jews, but not the peasants and day laborers of Galilee ~
If that claim is true, then as an artisan & day laborer, Yesh would have possibly belonged to the lowest class of peasants in first-century Palestine, just above the indigent, the beggar, and the slave. The Romans used the term TEKTON as slang for almost any uneducated or illiterate peasant, & Yeshua was likely both?! Illiteracy rates in 1st-century Palestine were staggeringly high, particularly for the poor ~~
It is estimated that nearly 97% of the Jewish peasantry could neither read nor write, a not so unexpected figure for predominantly oral societies such as the one in which "Jesus" is supposed to have lived, then & there? Certainly the Hebrew Scriptures played a prominent role in the lives of the Jewish people! But the overwhelming majority of Jews in Jesus's time would have had only the most rudimentary grasp of Hebrew, barely enough to understand the scriptures when they were read to them at the synagogue?
Hebrew was the language of the scribes & scholars of the law - the language of learning! Peasants like this YESH would have had quite enormous difficulty communicating in Hebrew, even in its colloquial form, which is why much of scriptures had been translated into Ara-maic, THE primary language of the Jewish peasantry: the language of Yeshu. It is possible that Yesh had some basic knowledge of the lingua Franca, Greek, of the Roman Empire (ironically, Latin was the language least used in the lands occupied by Rome), enough per-haps to negotiate contracts and deal with customers, but almost certainly not enough to preach! The only Jews who could communicate comfortably in Greek were the Hellenized Herodian elite, the priestly aristocracy in Judaea, and the more educated Diaspora Jews, but not the peasants and day laborers of Galilee ~
23 nov 2015 - bewerkt op 26 nov 2015
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