Re: Languages in Gibson's Passion

Ph. D. wrote:

>Ray Brown wrote:
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>>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.
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>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).
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I'm curious how you came by this, or researchers did, or whatever.  We
have no manuscripts earlier than 60-100 years after the fact, but I
can't see how we'd know when they were written, if we have no manuscripts.

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