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Diglossia: Rabbinic Hebrew
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1. Historical Background The Jewish communities of the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods consisted of people who spoke Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek to such an extent that many were probably bilingual and perhaps even trilingual (for surveys, see Barr 1989; Watt 2000). While it is clear that some of the Diaspora communities no longer knew Hebrew (as demonstrated by the need for translations of the Bible into Greek and Aramaic, and as explicitly attested by some rabbinic sources (cf., e.g…
