Sunday, 12 June 2022

Original Bible Language - Hebrew (CW108)

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The Old Testaments

The first five books of the Bible (Old Testament) or Torah were written in Hebrew. Torah is commonly referred to as the Law (or the Pentateuch, in Christianity). These 5 books are traditionally ascribed to Moses (1391–1271 BC), the recipient of the original revelation from God on Mount Sinai.
  Almost the entire Old Testament was written in Hebrew. But a few chapters in the prophecies of Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in a language called Aramaic. This language became very popular in the ancient world and actually displaced many other languages.

Why use Aramaic ?
   After the fall of Jerusalem and Judah in 586 BC, the majority of the remnant Jews were taken as slaves to Babylon where they had to learn and speak Aramaic the language of their masters.
   It did not take long before the majority of the Jews lost their use of the Hebrew language. Daniel had to write the latter part of his book in Aramaic so that the Jews could understand. Similarly, the majority of Ezra's writings were in Aramaic.

Falsehood of Scribes
Jer 8:8   "How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us'? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood."
    The Devil used false scribes to corrupt the Torah and Prophets also sent the false prophets to confuse them with false writings resulting in the priests becoming lawless.
Jer 5:30-31  "An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?"
   
Prophets sent by God
Jer 7:25  Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
    God sent His true prophets to admonish, judge and rectify these corruptions. So the many rejects (false and erred scriptures) were to be burned, destroyed or banned.  
   These are some of the rejected false and demonic Old Testament books.
  Book of Enoch
  The Secrets of Enoch
  The Psalms of Solomon
  The Odes of Solomon
  The Letter of Aristeas
  The Story of Ahikar

Canon Books of the Old Testament
   It seems that as far back as Erza and Nehemiah, the 39 books of the OT were being canonised until the 3rd Century BC.
   The 24 books of the Hebrew Bible are the same as the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament, only divided and ordered differently: the books of the Minor Prophets are in Christian Bibles twelve different books, and in Hebrew Bibles, one book called "The Twelve". Likewise, Christian Bibles divide the Books of Kingdoms into four books, either 1–2 Samuel and 1–2 Kings or 1–4 Kings: Jewish Bibles divide these into two books. The Jews likewise keep 1–2 Chronicles/Paralipomenon as one book. Ezra and Nehemiah are likewise combined in the Jewish Bible, instead of divided into two books, as per the Catholic and Protestant tradition.

Translation into Greek
  By the third century BC, the Jewish community had largely lost the ability to speak Hebrew, so they translated the books of the Hebrew Bible into their then-native (Koine) Greek.
   Gradually this Greek translation of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint, was widely accepted and was even used in many synagogues.

Dead Sea Scrolls are Erred Texts
    The famous Dead Sea Scrolls including the Hebrew Old Testament discovered in 1947 actually date back to the first century BC but they are not the originals.  
  These scrolls were rejects because they have erred and flawed texts. They should have been burnt or destroyed. All bible translations taken from these rejected scrolls will have missing or erred texts.
  The originals, which were translated into the Greek Septuagint in the third century BC, have all been lost or destroyed. For accuracy, all bible translations of the Old Testaments should be taken directly from the Septuagint.