Re: Languages in Gibson's Passion

Staving Ph. D.:
>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).
>
There is a church in Italy which processes an object claimed to be the
Titulus. Paleographic analysis, and the fact that the inscriptions are not
in the order mentioned in the Gospels, suggest that it may well be genuine.
(eg, first century abbreviations are used, that a later forger would be
unlikely to know.)

Pete