Jesus and Hebrew

Jesus and Hebrew: some scholars today feel that Jesus taught in Hebrew, even though traditional scholarship concluded that Hebrew was mostly a deadly language around the time of Christ. The traditional view is that Jesus taught in Aramaic, although Greek is also a possibility.

From recent scholarship:

“  |  Over the last three quarters of a century it has become increasingly clear that Hebrew was by no means a dead language in the time of Jesus. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bar Kochva Letters, and accumulating epigraphical evidence has shown that Hebrew continued to be used as a language of discourse well into the second century C.E.  |  ”

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Also, the Mishna, which its collected content includes from before and around that time (published after the destruction of the Temple), is mostly in Hebrew.