Did Jesus speak Greek?
J. Sevenster wrote a book called "Do You Know Greek" (Brill 1968)
which analyzes to what degree 1st century Palestinian Jews,
in particular the author of the epistle of James, were able to
speak/write Greek. He concludes that speaking Greek as a second language
was a very common accomplishment among those people.
But any argument that Jesus spoke Greek primarily, because most Galileans
did, seems to be farfetched.
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