The Hebrew B'rit Chadashah / New Covenant

05/10/2017 | Mordechai ben Avram

[Jeremiah Jr]

The Hebrew B'rit Chadashah / New Covenant

Some believe that the New Covenant was originally written in Greek, this view is incorrect. The Hebrew language was never a dead language and this view shows great ignorance of Jewish life in general and Chanukah in particular.

Jeremiah 16:19 O YHVH my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Oh my, that’s why! We have inherited lies, vanity and things where there is no profit. Looks like Jeremiah 16:19 is going to be a series.

Now lets get to the facts, the word ‘Hebrew’ in the KJV

Luke 23:38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

John 19:20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

Acts 21:40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

Acts 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

Acts 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

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You get the point(?) Hebrew was spoken before during and after Yeshua walked the Holy Land.

No doubt Alexander (the great) instituted Greek as the official language of government in the lands he conquered and Latin was the language of the Roman courts and military but the language spoken by Jewish fishermen was Hebrew, hence the sign written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin.

And when Paul was making his rounds to Corinth, Ephesus, Galatia, etc. he visited the synagogues as there were no churches.
Actually the word synagogue does not appear in the Hebrew New Covenant, the word(s) are knesset (gathering or assembly) or a variant. (knessets)

Acts 17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Acts 18:19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

And what does every synagogue have? A Hebrew Torah Scroll!

Question:

Was a sefer torah ever actually written in Greek?

The answer is we don't know if a defer for was written in Greek because we don't have any evidence for or against it. However, we do have copies of Torot written in Paleo Hebrew. My best guess would be that there probably were privately commissioned Greek scrolls for rich Hellenistic Jews of Alexandria for personal study use. Like maybe Philo – Aaron Nov 25 '15 at 17:22

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/48542/was-a-sefer-torah-ever-actually-written-in-greek

And The Hebrew B'rit Chadashah is far richer then the Greek translation, for instance.

The word 'paradise' found in the the Hebrew New Covenant consists of three different phrases.

Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. גַן־עֵדֶן Gan Eden Garden of Eden

2 Corinthians 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. פַּרְדֵּס PaRDeS (orchard)

Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. גַּן־אֱלׂהִים GaN ELoHIM Garden of ELoHIM

In Greek it's the same word, 'paradeisos' look it up at Blue Letter Bible

Fact is you don’t get more from less, it works the other way around, the Hebrew was translated into the Greek (and much was lost in the process) then further dumb-ed down into English. And if you think that Paul wrote his letter to the Hebrews in Greek? Unspeakable ignorance

And a favorite source...

Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls

http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/

F.A.Q.
In what languages were the scrolls written ?

The majority of the scrolls were written in the Hebrew Language (approximately 90-95%) with Assyrian Block script. From this majority there are a few cases in which the scribes used Paleo-Hebrew (see for example 4QPaleoExodus). In addition to the texts found in Hebrew there were also some texts written in Aramaic and Greek.

http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/resources/FAQ.shtml#language

And Qumran is where Yochanan the Immercer (John the baptist) resided, (the wilderness) As Yochanan would have been under Herod’s death sentence as was Yeshua.

And Yeshua’s mother’s name, Miriam and His brother, Yaacov (Jacob)

The Sar Shalom Hebrew-English Bible!
http://www.sarshalom.us/resources/scripture/asv/bible.html

[Jeremiah Jr]

Surely Our Fathers Have Inherited Lies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_PKyiW6b1Q

The Festival of Chanukah

Dedicated against Assimilation

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Winter_Holidays/Chanukah/chanukah.html

[Ezekiel]

And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew...

It's like the little instruction papers or booklets that come with everything these days, written in a zillion languages.

If people aren't paying attention, it doesn't matter what language is written.

[Bethaneidh]

Yes, in that day and time virtually everyone was trilingual, even fishermen.

[Bethaneidh]

“place and time”

[boatbums]

Some believe that the New Covenant was originally written in Greek, this view is incorrect. The Hebrew language was never a dead language and this view shows great ignorance of Jewish life in general and Chanukah in particular.

Whoever these "some" people are, they are correct. We have NO evidence that the New Testament books were originally written in Hebrew, in fact, there is unassailable evidence that GREEK was the language they were written in. No one is arguing that Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic but when His words were written down in the Gospels, the writers used Greek. Greek was the lingua franca of the time - it was one of the main reasons the Septuagint was created so that Greek speaking Jews had their Scriptures and other books in the language they spoke, which was Greek.

Don't forget, many of the epistles were addressed to Gentiles who would not be native Hebrew speakers. Finally, we have thousands of manuscripts copies - some partial, some complete - of Greek language writings of the Apostles and disciples of Jesus. If these books had originally been in Hebrew, why don't we have any manuscripts of them? Could some of the NT books been translated into Hebrew? Sure, but they were originally written in Greek. The incorrect view is that they were originally in Hebrew.

[Campion]

Where's your "unassailable" evidence that all of the NT books were originally composed in Greek? I don't doubt that St Paul's epistles to Greek churches like Corinth and Ephesus were written in Greek, but there's ample evidence that at least parts of the Gospels were originally written in Hebrew.

Papias says flatly that Matthew wrote his Gospel for the Jews, and wrote it in Hebrew. Substantial passages in Luke, when back-translated into Hebrew, reveal acrostics and other plays on words which aren't present in the Greek. As to why the Hebrew manuscripts didn't survive ... perhaps they did, in translation. There's textual evidence that the Syriac peshittas were not entirely translated from the Greek back into Aramaic, but came from another textual source.

But the obvious answer as to why no surviving Hebrew originals exist is that they would have only been preserved by Jewish Christians in the Holy Land, and they didn't survive the wars of AD 70 and AD 132, nor did they survive the hostility between Jews and Christians that is already recorded in Acts.

[boatbums]

Where is your unassailable proof that any of the NT books were originally written in Hebrew? I already stated that Hebrew translations may have been composed later but we don't have any manuscript copies that date earlier than the ones that exist in Greek. As to the existence of Hebrew "acrostics" or idioms in the gospels, the simple explanation is that Jesus probably taught in Hebrew or Aramaic as well as Greek and the writers wrote these teachings in Greek as they were "carried along by the Holy Spirit" in composing Holy Scripture as He brought to their minds all the things Jesus taught them.

There are several sites that address this including:

Did Jesus and the Apostles Speak Greek?

Why Was the New Testament Written in Greek?

The New Testament Was Originally Written in Greek

[Read Write Repeat]

Aramaic was the common tongue of the time and place.

There’s zero evidence ‘Matthew’ was a Jew or knew Hebrew.

[Tzaphon]

The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tddCNY6U77Y

Nehemia Gordon

Nehemia is a Biblical scholar!

And more proof of the Hebrew New Covenant!

[Zionist Conspirator]

There is no ancient Hebrew "new testament." All such Hebrew "new testaments" are modern translations.

How can a late nineteenth century translation from (I assume) Greek suddenly become "the original article?"

[Flaming Conservative]

Matthew was, as were all the Apostles, a Jew. Jesus himself stated, “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” KJV (but every version says the same). It was only after the ascension, and the coming of the Holy Spirit, that Peter was told, in a vision, that salvation was for all people, all nations, whosoever will believe on Jesus.

[Flaming Conservative]

Any Jew, who studied the Scriptures, for themselves, would have had to read Hebrew, as the Scriptures were all Old Testament writings, written in Hebrew. It is my understanding that the Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, and other “doctors” of the Law, read and interpreted the Scriptures for those who could not read them, themselves. That is why they were so amazed, when Jesus came into the Temple, opened the Book, read it out loud, then, “And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Luke 4:21

[Tzaphon]

More evidence for the Hebrew B'rit Chadashah!

Hebrew Gospels from a Vatican Junk Box - NehemiasWall.com