{"id":88351,"date":"2014-05-28T21:12:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=88351"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:12:20","slug":"what-language-did-jesus-speak-benjamin-netanyahu-and-popes-disagreement-opens-debate-on-whether-he-spoke-hebrew-or-aramaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=88351","title":{"rendered":"What language DID Jesus speak? Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope&#8217;s disagreement opens debate on whether he spoke Hebrew or Aramaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Benjamin-Netanyahu-the-Pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88348\" alt=\"\u0532\u0565\u0576\u0575\u0561\u0574\u056b\u0576 \u0546\u0561\u0569\u0561\u0576\u0575\u0561\u0570\u0578\u0582, \u054a\u0561\u057a\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Benjamin-Netanyahu-the-Pope.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Benjamin-Netanyahu-the-Pope.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Benjamin-Netanyahu-the-Pope-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Benjamin-Netanyahu-the-Pope-442x300.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Pope\u2019s pilgrimage to the Middle East was controversial because of the holy leader\u2019s impromptu prayer session at the West Bank\u2019s barrier.<\/p>\n<p>And a playful religious disagreement also took place between Pope Francis and Israel\u2019s prime minister, which revolved around Jesus\u2019 linguistic skills.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Netanyahu and the Pope had a small, good natured squabble about the language spoken by Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu told the Pope: \u2019Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew,\u2019 in a bid to discuss the strong ties between Judaism and Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>To which the smiling Pope corrected: \u2018Aramaic. He spoke Aramaic, but he knew Hebrew.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sebastian Brock, emeritus reader in Aramaic at Oxford University told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/blogs-magazine-monitor-27587230\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a> that both leaders are correct.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Pope\u2019s pilgrimage to the Middle East was controversial because of the holy leader\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":88348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,152,224,137],"tags":[2096,10580],"class_list":["post-88351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-pope","tag-what-language-did-jesus-speak-benjamin-netanyahu","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}