on 1/12/00 2:53 PM, Reynolds, Gregg at greynolds@datalogics.com wrote:
> Paul's epistles were probably
> written in Greek, but the Gospels, the core book of the Bible, were first
> composed in Aramaic. Yes, that is a wild speculation, but it could be true!
Alas, no. Mark, Luke, and John were undoubtedly composed originally in
Greek. There is a small chance that Matthew was originally composed in
Aramaic, but scholars are nearly unanimous that this isn't the case. At
least the right-handed ones are. :-)
(BTW, doesn't this imply that since the preferred righting direction for Far
Eastern scripts was originally vertical, everyone in that part of the world
must clearly be ambidextrous?)
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John H. Jenkins
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tseng@blueneptune.com
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