Jesus spoke aramaic -
part of book of daniel
written in aramaic.
cogate of language to
hebrew. lang. of babylon.
pali- sandskrit
sutta-sutra
portugese-spanish

george lamsa argues that
n.t. written in aramaic

New Testement
earliest fragment 125 ad
earliest whole manuscript
350ad

josephus - antiquitites of
the jews written from 37 -100
ad, overlapping the n.t.

enlightenment - age of reason
skepticism about supernatural
rise of scientific naturalism

deism- god created universe/
exists but doesn't intervene