FROM Dottie Boerner:  The class (on June 21) got into a discussion.  The issue was, What language were the first century Jews in Palestine speaking?  Someone in the class said they were speaking Aramaic and Greek, that Hebrew was a dead language (and remained so until 1947).  A further debate ensued as to whether Hebrew might have been used in the synagogues, as the Catholic church services were in Latin until the last century, or whether the Septuagint was what was used, which would have been in a language the audience could have understood. (I know there's some debate about whether synagogues existed before the destruction of the Temple in 72 A.D. and the diaspora.) I guess we agreed that they wouldn't have been speaking Latin!