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"Most scholars believe that the language Jesus spoke in day-to-day life was a dialect of Aramaic, which Jesus’s ancestors had learned during the period of the Exile and its aftermath, when large numbers of Judeans lived in Mesopotamia and migrated across the Fertile Crescent. As noted, Abgar spoke Aramaic and was king of what would later become a center of Aramaic literature. We do not know whether or not Jesus could speak and write Greek, which was much more widely spoken in the eastern side of the Roman Empire in Jesus’s day. Because the claim in the Abgar legend is that Jesus wrote to someone in Aramaic rather than Greek, it is sometimes noted in popular discourse that Jesus could have communicated with Abgar directly. "
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Michael Huffman
