–[ 2 MIN READ]– Matthew was a tax collector and so would have had working knowledge of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin so as to file reports with the Roman authorities in his district. – Luke was a Greek Gentile and physician, thus a learned man who most certainly would have had a working knowledge of Greek. – Mark […]
–[ 11 MIN READ]How do Christian brothers fight each other? …With Canons “What is the best bible version?”, for this post we will only look at the Americanised Cannon of 66 books. A book that we will not consider is Esther. The book wasn’t added until later on in the Christian era. Ezra did not canonize it, Josephus
–[ 4 MIN READ]Around 60 b.c. The Roman Triumvirate Pompey brought Judea under Roman Rule. He pushed all the Judaites into the areas of Galilee, Jericho and Jerusalem. Then he settled Greeks and Syrians in the rest of the land of Palestine. Originally, Galilee was settled by the tribe of Benjamin who always followed the tribe of Judah. A few years earlier, Hyranicus, a
–[ 37 MIN READ]If I didn’t already have a modicum of understanding of this subject, I confess, I would not understand his book, “Hebrew is Greek” particularly scholarly and quite meaty, written by one of the worlds foremost living linguist. Though my take is a little different, but I don’t disagree with the factual data and respect the
–[ 6 MIN READ]What often puzzles the novice reader of the New Testament gospel accounts is the open conflict that repeatedly took place between Jesus and the Jewish religious leaders of the day. How could it be that Christ found such fault with their teachings—“beware of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees”—while at the same time acknowledging
–[ 3 MIN READ]The defixio came to light in December 2019 when Scott Stripling, ABR’s Director of Excavations and the Director of the Archaeological Studies Institute at The Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas, led an ABR team to wet sift the discarded material from Adam Zertal’s excavations (1982–1989) on Mt. Ebal. A press conference was held on Thursday,
–[ 26 MIN READ]Carl D. Franklin Most Jewish Rabbis believe that Hebrew is the original language that God gave to man. They teach that the Hebrew of the patriarchs was pure and unadulterated– meaning that it included no words from other languages–and that the Old Testament was originally written in this “sacred” language. They claim that the hundreds
–[ 9 MIN READ]I. When Hebrew was invented Christians desire in earnest to follow our Lord and Master, our High Priest and Rabbi. We accomplish that by reading our bibles. Not every word of the collection of books in the bible are exactly the way Yah dictated. So our goal is to know the original instruction from the
