Heavenly Languages

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2500 BCE

1000+ CE

Hebrew Bible

Genesis 11:7 Genesis 11:9 Isaiah 28:11 Zechariah 8:23

Septuagint

LXX Genesis 11:7

Pseudepigrapha

Jubilees 12:25 Testament of Job 11:24 Apocalypse of Zephaniah 8:5 Apocalypse of Abraham 15:7

Classical

Philo The Decalogue 1:46

New Testament

1 Corinthians 13:1 1 Corinthians 14:2 1 Corinthians 14:14 1 Corinthians 14:21 Mark 16:17 Acts 2:3 Acts 2:4 Acts 2:6 Acts 2:11 Acts 10:46 Acts 19:6

Rabbinic

Shabbat 88b Exodus Rabbah 5

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Glossolalia and xenolalia describe two ways that Jewish and early Christian sources present speech given by divine agency: ecstatic utterance that no listener understands, and fluent use of a human language the speaker never learned. Acts presents the disciples at Pentecost as heard by pilgrims in their own native languages, while Paul treats the Corinthian gift as speech addressed to God alone and in need of interpretation. Second Temple traditions supply the background for both, describing angels who praise in their own dialects and a heavenly speech that mortals can briefly share.

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