Ancient Biblical Question

[Guest]

I've been trying to find out what language was spoken during the time of Kind David and King Solomon's reign (specifically King Solomon). Nobody seems to know a defenite answer on that. I figure it would be some Hebrew dialect or phonecian, or chaldean?...so if anyone can help me that would be great...also, if someone does now what language was spoken or written, maybe they can help me translate something from me, the word "Peacemaker". Someone has to know...please write back.

[NYCTwin]

i thought i was signed in, i'm new to the site...so if anyone could help that would be great...thanks

[Latinus]

i thought i was signed in, i'm new to the site...so if anyone could help that would be great...thanks

Everyone done that the first time ! It doesn't matter

Welcome on board

[NYCTwin]

thanks..lol....anyway, i'll be checking tomorrow to see if i get any feedback on that question...thanks again

[Gilen]

In fact, the important element is that when Salomon became King, he decided to give a big place to the scribes in his court and asked them to write down the final text of the Genesis. This text has the particularity to call G.od by the well known tetragram YHWH, that is why we call this kind of text "yahvist". This part of the Bible is written in Hebrew, we can then figure out that the language (at least at the court) was Hebrew.

[NYCTwin]

Why was the language at the time of Jesus aramaic, and in the time of King Solomon it was Old Hebrew?

[Pierre]

Why was the language at the time of Jesus aramaic, and in the time of King Solomon it was Old Hebrew?

See for instance there: http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_afroasia.html :
Aramaic, once the administrative language of the Perisan Empire, later the language of Palestine during Roman times. It now survives in small pockets in Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran where it is called Assyrian.