הבשורה טובה הגאולה What language was the Besora Tova HaGeula
(Good News of Redemption) written in? Most people will tell you
it was written in Greek. They go on to tell you that it was the
"language of the day". They say everything during that time was
written in Greek and that everybody also spoke Greek, including
the Jews of HaAretz (The Land). Let’s find out if this is indeed
the truth. First we have to look at a couple of facts. One fact
is that we have a transcript of the Book of Matthew in Hebrew,
which predates any manuscripts we have in Koinia Greek. (Koinia
Greek was the Greek in Rome at the time of Yeshua. It is from
the Koinia Greek that we have our current translations – the
ones they say are the originals). This fact alone has to make us
rethink if Greek was indeed the original language of the Besora
Tova HaGeula (Good News of Redemption). It obviously wasn’t.
Another fact is that when we read in Josephus Wars 5:9:2
(Josephus lived during the time of Yeshua and even references
Him as well as John