The Greek literary language of the HEbrew historian Josephus

Language contact has been for many centuries the aim of scholars belonging to such different fields as historians, philosophers, linguists, psychologi sts and politicians are. One of the very first questions they posed was whi ch language was chosen for writing and praying the Holy Gospels. Moreover, this matter led to another question, i.e. which language Jesus spoke. Ancie nt Palestine is known indeed as a cultural melting-pot since the second mil lennium BC at least. This paper would provide a philological analysis sugge sted by the Greek literary language of the Hebrew historian Flavius Josephu s. So would this ancient question be understood from a different perspectiv e.