Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Michael Abernathy" <mabernathy AT isot.com>]

Let me see if I understand your position.  A Jewish boy from Nazareth started 
a sect in the national boundaries  of the Jewish people but His disciples 
were not Jews?? These same disciples in manufacturing their history included 
a scandal concerning one of the leaders of that sect because he brought 
Gentiles into the sect without first converting them to Judaism.  Further, 
these disciples continued to debate the importance of the Torah to the 
Gentiles for several decades.  I will not speak for the other members of this 
list but I find this scenario laughable.  

Now, concerning your comment that they garbled quotations I think several 
things must be considered.  First, it appears from early translations of the 
New Testament into Greek and  Aramaic that the  translators commonly quoted 
from the version of the Scriptures their audience was used to.  Second, there 
is evidence that Hebrew manuscripts were not as uniform as they are today. 
Which means that we cannot always tell whether a quotation was from a 
divergent form of the text or if it came from the LXX.  Third, there is a 
debate among scholars as to which language the people of Israel spoke.  Most 
have argued that they spoke Aramaic.  Others argue that they spoke Hebrew.  
We do know that copies of the Scripture have been found in Aramaic.  We also 
know that there was a section of Jerusalem where the Jews were well 
acquainted with Greek.  When two or more translations of Scripture are held 
to be authoritative, it would be quite natural for the believers to 
paraphrase 
Sincerely,
Michael Abernathy
>>I may understand when the earliest Christians, not well-acquianted with
the
>>Tanakh, put much stock in the title messiah. But I'm puzzled why this
title
>>is of importance to you.
>You seem to have a misunderstanding about who the earliest Christians were.
The earliest Christians were Jews.  Gentiles were not initially included in
the membership of the church. While it is true that some of them may not
have been well versed in the scripture, some of them were very well
educated.<

>>Surely, very odd Jews those have been. They did not know Tanakh, cited
garbled quotations of the verses the should have studied in childhood (if
you know about bar Sheta reforms) and were unobservant. Wishful thinking

Sincerely,

Vadim Cherny
>>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] OT: a link about Modern Hebrew


VADIM>I take this as a positive development when they pay less attention to
saga.
Nakh as theology is Pharisaic innovation.

YIGAL >It's actually a Christian invention.


so Nakh is not theology ? so what is the Nakh then ?

Celal Berker

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