That's why I think Alexandria, it was for the library.

Probably

Hebrew was not a common language in Egypt even among Jews

Weren't greek and latin the dominant languages at the time?

Greek was basically the official language of the eastern empire

Latin in the west

Hebrew was never a common language, it was strictly holy

When I say dominant, I mean in the world not just Egypt.

Yeah

Any language in Egypt at the time was either Coptic or Greek

Greeks ruled the region for quite a while

Jews may have spoken Aramaic.

Most likely they did

Written in modern square script though

Matthew was probably written in it and translated into Greek at the library. Probably by the author himself

Matthew was the lawyer wasn't he?

or was it doctor...

Tax man

Luke was the doc

ah, i get them crossed 😦

Tax collector

I remember reading a little appendix type thing in my Bible where the rise of the greek and roman empires set the stage for Christianity to explode through the world.

Funnily enough Aramaic is the basis for Jurchen and Mongolian

Greek applied the language, and Roman provided the roads.

Spoken or written or both?

Both

It's influence is found in most languages in Asia. Even Vietnamese

Interesting.

There's like a dozen native speakers of jurchen left

Not too big on learning languages and studying them 😦

You know them better as manchus

What is jurchen anyways?

Mostly in West Syria

The people who ruled China from the 1600s to 1911

oh ok

That's why you know that. Married to a chinese lady 😉

And a previous dynasty in the 1200s deposed by Genghis Khan

Western neo is the only living dialect

One of Genghis Khans successors is Prester John

Eastern ruler whose armies fought alongside us in the holy crusades