Thread: clearly, as Bart Ehrman says, Peter was an Aramaic speaking peasant.
He knew no Greek.
He knew no Greek.
He came from Bethsaida (John 1:44), which became a Greek polis (city) around AD 31 but studiously avoided learning Greek.
He traded in fish, but made sure he only sold to Aramaic speakers.
He lived in Capernaum on an international trade route, but avoided talking to foreigners.
He traded in fish, but made sure he only sold to Aramaic speakers.
He lived in Capernaum on an international trade route, but avoided talking to foreigners.
He fished on the Sea of Galilee, but if in the middle of this little lake his boat met boats of fishermen from the Greek-speaking Decapolis on the far shore he made sure only to use Aramaic or sign language.
His parents somehow managed to give his little brother Andrew a Greek name uncommon for Palestine, but knew no speak Greek.
The fact that they chose names for both their sons which work in Greek (Simon & Andrew) was actually just to spite Greek speakers.
The fact that they chose names for both their sons which work in Greek (Simon & Andrew) was actually just to spite Greek speakers.
He signed up with an itinerant rabbi (teacher), but did not receive any language education.
He travelled as a preacher in the linguistically mixed villages of Palestine, but always spoke only to Aramaic speakers.
He travelled as a preacher in the linguistically mixed villages of Palestine, but always spoke only to Aramaic speakers.
He travelled to the Decapolis & Caesarea Philippi, but always remembered to block his ears when the locals spoke Greek.
If he travelled from Palestine in later life, he worked hard not to learn Greek.
Because...
we all just KNOW he was an Aramaic speaking peasant.
#irony
If he travelled from Palestine in later life, he worked hard not to learn Greek.
Because...
we all just KNOW he was an Aramaic speaking peasant.
#irony
