Editing Language of Jesus (section)

===Dead Sea Scrolls===
According to [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] archaeologist [[Yigael Yadin]], Aramaic was the language of [[Hebrews]] until [[Bar Kokhba revolt|Simon Bar Kokhba's revolt]] (132 AD to 135 AD). Yadin noticed the shift from Aramaic to [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] in the documents he studied, which had been written during the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt. In his book, ''Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome'', Yigael Yadin notes, "It is interesting that the earlier documents are written in Aramaic while the later ones are in Hebrew. Possibly the change was made by a special decree of Bar Kokhba who wanted to restore Hebrew as the official language of the state".<ref name="Yadin 1971 p.181 ">{{cite book | last=Yadin | first=Yigael | title=Bar-Kokhba; the rediscovery of the legendary hero of the second Jewish revolt against Rome | url=https://archive.org/details/barkokhba00yiga | url-access=registration | publisher=Random House | location=New York | year=1971 | isbn=978-0-297-00345-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/barkokhba00yiga/page/181 181]}}</ref>

In another book by Sigalit Ben-Zion, Yadin said: "it seems that this change came as a result of the order that was given by Bar Kokhba, who wanted to revive the Hebrew language and make it the official language of the state."<ref name="Zion 2009 p.155 ">{{cite book | last=Zion | first=Sigalit | title=A roadmap to the heavens an anthropological study of hegemony among priests, sages, and laymen | publisher=Academic Studies Press | location=Boston | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-934843-14-7 | page=155}}</ref> Yadin points out that Aramaic was the regional [[lingua franca]] at the time.<ref>Book "Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome" p. 234</ref>