In more recent times, an expanding circle of scholars has rejected this commonly believed notion as erroneous. They are now convinced that the language Jesus used to teach his talmidim – disciples – was Hebrew, not Aramaic. There is as well a growing conviction that Hebrew was also the language in which the original "Life of Jesus" was first conveyed. Christian scholars working in cooperation with Jewish scholars in Jerusalem have been among the first to develop the evidences for this relatively new theory. In this article, we consider their arguments in favor of Hebrew as Jesus’ teaching language, and as the language of an original "Gospel" account from which all others are ultimately derived.