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BurtWorm

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Thu Oct-13-05 03:55 PM
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413. Then why didn't Hillel write in Greek?

Philo wrote in Greek because he was in Alexandria and probably didn't know Hebrew very well, but Jews in Judea wrote in Hebrew or Aramaic, didn't they? (Josephus wrote in Latin because his history of the Jews was for the Emperor, wasn't it?)

Is there another example of a Jew from Judea who wrote in Greek? I don't know of any.

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