No one is clear on WHO "JOHN" of the NT was-------he wrote in GREEK and long after Jesus died. Theologians agree that 'JOHN' was "several people" An issue which fascinates me is the statement attributed to Jesus "YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL ME"---------if DA JOOOOS wanted to kill Jesus-----what was stopping them? The romans would not have cared
Obviously this was wrote by Hellenistic Jews, how could they make such a grave error. We all know the exodus was not based on truth as Israel loves to claim. Don't try and change the subject matter.
It was HISTORICALLY written decades after Jesus died -----by unknown persons
COLLECTIVELY called "JOHN" The writings of the "JOHNS" conform
to the concepts of the ROMAN EMPEROR-----Constantine. There is no
possible way to IDENTIFY unknown persons as "OBVIOUSLY HELLENISTIC JEWS" ---------but it is possible that some or most or all of them were
Hellenistic jews-----------as was PAUL (actually a convert greek) SO? what
is your point? As to the claim "we all know that exodus was not based on
truth" -------is an utterly idiotic statement. For millennia people believed that
the ODYSSEY was not based on "truth" ------until HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN---found the ruins of TROY. There is clear evidence that jews migrated to Egypt and---
fairly suddenly LEFT -----the lack of evidence that some "talking burning bush"
happened somewhere------is a moot point. BUDDHA was a real person too
Few Hebrews even spoke Hebrew in Jesus's day, it was a religious language. Most didn't have any OT or Torah, they got their teachings from the elders who taught the Talmud composed in Babylon. There was no exodus.
Aramaic was the language of the street. Jews had significant levels of literacy in
Hebrew at that time, as did Jesus if the accounts of his youth in the NT are true.
The Aramaic that jews SPOKE at that time was an Hebraized form or Aramaic----written in the standard Hebrew script of the time and containing lots of Hebrew words and expressions and poetic allusions.
Unlike you-------jews were GENERALLY literate at that time and did leave significant, still extant, writings. The dead sea scrolls are written to a large extent in standard modern Hebrew------even I can stumble thru lots of it, Talmud was written both in Babylon and in Israel-----
Did your catechism whore actually tell you that the NT account of Jesus is a BIG LIE?-------Jesus READ in the synagogue------he did not READ in French, Greek or Latin or Aramaic-----he READ ---that is ---PERFORMED THE READING,
IN HEBREW----not from the "catechism" or SUPER MAN comics------he READ parts of the torah scroll and-----some other stuff from -----other writings----like PSALMS , Prophets----etc. Public reading of the TORAH and--the other stuff was MANDATORY at that time---for ALL MALES OVER THE AGE OF 13------quite a horror if anyone could not handle it-----a social failure for his WHOLE COMMUNITY.
Persons who dismiss the historic basis of scriptural writings are
very dim. Even the ODYSSEY is based on historic realities and real events.
Jesus liked to quote HILLEL-----he was a Talmudist of the Israel part who died
just about the time that ---according to the NT----Jesus was born. Since Hebraized Aramaic was the language of the street at that time and the Talmud is
commentary on the torah------it was written in ARAMAIC----mostly.-----so EVERYONE ---even the most uneducated----could understand it. Had you lived
in "JUDEA" at that time------you would probably have known how to speak in
Aramaic-----but not write
No they weren't. The got the alphabet from Phoenicians and Canaanites, they also spoke Canaanite language. The exodus is not historic and its time to admit it.
what is CANAANITE LANGUAGE------what is CANAAN? There is NO DOUBT that jews lived back then for a time IN EGYPT as a community and then ABRUPTLY LEFT------that is the HISTORIC EXODUS ---------and not at all a singular story for the time-----LOTS OF PEOPLES migrated about because of
incessant wars and issues of climate and famine