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To: MarkBsnr

You may ‘believe’ what you wish, but to think that those uneducated working class disciples were literate in any language but Hebrew is illogical, and beyond improbable.

Hebrew isn’t just another language; it is the language of YHVH, and is the only language created for the purpose of conveying his laws and gospel. Each character tells a story by itself, about the land and his people.


171 posted on 12/27/2012 11:32:43 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
You may ‘believe’ what you wish, but to think that those uneducated working class disciples were literate in any language but Hebrew is illogical, and beyond improbable.

Hebrew isn’t just another language; it is the language of YHVH, and is the only language created for the purpose of conveying his laws and gospel. Each character tells a story by itself, about the land and his people.

The problem with that idea is that there isn't any evidence that the NT was written in Hebrew and that the only evidence that we have of the NT is that it was written in Greek. Hebrew as a language even in the Middle East was in more disuse than Latin is in the Western World. Greek was the lingua franca of the entire world at that point (to be replaced by Latin some centuries later). That is why the overwhelming number of the Talmuds were written in Greek. So few Jews knew Hebrew that the Alexandrian Greek Talmud (the Septuagint) was not only common, but the rule.

175 posted on 12/27/2012 1:27:04 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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