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Did Peter Speak Hebrew to the Servant? A Linguistic Examination of the Expression “I Do Not Know What You Are Saying” (Matt 26:70; Mark 14:68; Luke 22:60)

Eran Shuali
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In this article I examine the statement “I do not know what you are saying,” uttered by Peter according to the Synoptic Gospels as a response to the accusation that he was one of Jesus’s men. I examine the Hebrew parallels to this phrase in Tannaitic literature, with special attention to their wording and pragmatic func­tion. Although Tannaitic literature postdates the New Testament, its use of this phrase may shed light on the Synoptic passage. I conclude that Peter’s phrase is not likely to have been formulated originally in Greek or Aramaic; it should be understood as reflecting an idiomatic expression in Hebrew.

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Eran Shuali. Did Peter Speak Hebrew to the Servant? A Linguistic Examination of the Expression “I Do Not Know What You Are Saying” (Matt 26:70; Mark 14:68; Luke 22:60). Journal of Biblical Literature, 2017, 136, pp.405-416. ⟨hal-03723068⟩

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