RE: The ancient language of ivrit ( עברית ) Why Yeshua(h)
Yes, I aways thought that his name was Yeshua (yud shin vav ayin) or yeshu ? ... The reason I have decided to study the ancient Hebrew language is that I discovered many years ago that the oldest versions of the Bible, The Old Testament - Torah / Tanakh and the New Testament were originally written in Hebrew and later translated into Aramaic/Syriac, Coptic, Greek, Latin, English French German and all the other languages of the World.
If Jesus is God, One with God (Father/abba) as he says, and if he is the Teacher of the Way to the Kingdom of God, then wouldn't it be important to understand and study his words in the Original language they were spoken ?
Believing that the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic I started my studies with the aramaic/Syriac copies of the Peshitta (New Testament) until I learned that this was also a translation from a much earlier Hebrew original.
Luckily for me I have found @hebrew here on Steemit that is teaching the original ancient Hebrew language that was used to write the Bible. He blogs about each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet and how they are formed to created the spoken words of God.
A scroll at the University of Bologna Italy is shown to be 800 years old. An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts says he has found the oldest known COMPLETE Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225.
There are fragments of the Torah scrolls and other books of the Bible that have been found in Israel, especially at the Dead Sea that are much much older.
To understand the complete Teaching of Jesus (Yeshuah) you need to study his words in Hebrew.
Image: Oldest Complete Torah Scroll in Italy.
This is Fantastic. I had no idea about this. I want to know more.
Shabbat Shalom!
Nice that you dug that up. What I am teaching on my blog is exactly that. That is the kind of Hebrew I study and teach.
Shabbat Shalom
I am very interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls and texts from Nag Hammadi. I wonder where Coptic fit into all this....
Me too. I believe the books found at Nag Hammadi and other places in Egypt are very important. Especially the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (The Twin) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas
The Gospel of Thomas may be the earliest record of the Teaching of Jesus ... as early as 40 AD.... Assigning a date to the Gospel of Thomas is very complex because it is difficult to know precisely to what a date is being assigned. Scholars have proposed a date as early as 40 AD or as late as 140 AD, depending upon whether the Gospel of Thomas is identified with the original core of sayings, or with the author's published text, or with the Greek or Coptic texts, or with parallels in other literature."
That is sure a lot of findings but i never knew the bible was written in Aramic, i thought it was strictly hebrew?
Most is in Hebrew .... but a few books in Aramaic.... ie: Book of Daniel, Ezra ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Aramaic
Wow thats too amazing, all along i didnt know
The Peshitta is an Aramaic Translation of the entire Bible - Old and New Testament.