The Earliest View of New Testament Tongues: Understood as Non-Supernatural, Learned Earthly Languages

This book is a groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting look at the "languages/tongues" problem (γλῶσσαι/glṓssai) of the first-century AD Corinthian church. It adduces that in a multilingual setting, new converts were expressing themselves in their native dialect without translation, where Koine Greek was not yet overriding all regional dialects. This cuts against the idea that the inferred earthly languages were miraculously and instantaneously given--an idea not found before 160 AD. Vellacott's ...