Quote Originally Posted by cmacq View Post
Not to offend anyone, nor to draw too fine a point, yet within the EB time frame, Hebrew was more or less a dead language, and either Aramaic, Samaritan Aramaic, or Greek were commonly used in the secular life of the street and state. Hebrew continued to be used to limited degree, along with both Greek and Aramaic in a various polities that comprised Palestine among adherents of Samaritanism and Judaism, as well as the various associated sects, much as Latin was applied in Medieval Europe.

CmacQ
If people get offended by historical fact, then they need to take a break from being such a tight ass.