Re: Languages in Gibson's Passion

Ray Brown wrote:
>
> If we accept the historicity of John's account (and I
> do), then it's quite clear that Pilate took full
> responsibility for what was written and certainly
> wrote the Greek text. We cannot, I think, go further
> and say that this shows Pilate could write Aramaic.

Of course, the gospels were not written down until
sixty to one hundred years after the fact, so it's even
possible that Pilate ordered the text written and the
story became changed to say that Pilate actually
wrote it (or even that there was no text at all and that
it's an embellishment to the story).

--Ph. D.

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