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To: Errant
While it can easily shown that Hebrew was a spoken language in Israel during the time of Y'shua, there are no Hebrew New Testament manuscripts available today that indicate an original Hebrew autograph. All Hebrew New Testament Bibles have either been translated from Greek or Aramaic texts. The oldest Hebrew manuscripts, translated into Hebrew from Greek, are dated to the 15th Century.

So much for Hebrew originals, then.

548 posted on 03/06/2014 11:28:07 AM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: RansomOttawa
So much for Hebrew originals, then.

Well for that matter, originals of anything - including Greek (except for fragments of either). Everything is now copies of copies.

But there is Shem-Tov's Hebrew Matthew, and a possible Hebrew manuscript of Acts alluded to.

Even so, the missing originals doesn't prevent scholars from restoring the original Hebrew meanings to the Greek translations "coined" to express the Hebrew meaning as much as possible, but at times failing.

552 posted on 03/06/2014 11:38:11 AM PST by Errant (Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)
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