I think I mention this in the video, but just in case I didn't. It is a known fact that any new breakthroughs in Biblical archeology takes about 50 years to become mainstream knowledge in America. Over the past few decades it has become common knowledge in Israel that hebrew was the language of the Jews up until the Byzantine period. This means that it will be a few more decades before this becomes mainstream knowledge in America.
@mrd6376 Yes, there is evidence that the entire NT was originally written in Hebrew and one day I hope to do a video on that as well. Manu assume that Paul's letters were written to Greeks who would not know Hebrew. However, this is not the case, the Greek word translated as "Greek" is Hellenisti which means "Hellenized Jew," a Jew (who would speak Hebrew) who had adopted some aspects of Greek culture and thought.
Hello Jeff, I just love the way you present your lectures; you make the context in which Hebrew is written attractive and easy to be understood :-). You strike me as a ppl's person and are blessed with an accessible communication style. Shalom & Yah Bless
The point is that in the diaspora Hebrew existed only as a language of religious study. The language of the day to day business becomes your foundation to your world view (philosophy). I will be doing a video on this very subject in my "A History of Hebrew" series as this is a very important issue.
Acts 21:37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? Would the chief captain need to ask this if Greek was as universal in Jerusalem or Israel as we suppose? Paul of course goes on to speak Hebrew to the various Jews joined in Jerusalem as shown above. Would he do this if Hebrew wasn't well understood among Israelites? or am I missing something?
I instinctively believed the NT was atleast aramaic because the hebraic nature of the teaching demands it logically. What you show hear is awesome. A totally confirmation of my belief. I have said for years in my teaching if you can't build your theology out of the OT you shouldn't be teaching out of the NT.
@phreakazoas You bring up some very good arguments, but while these contractions are used in our writing today, and we use Latin on our coins today, is there evidence that the same things occurred in Ancient times, not that I have seen so far.
@mrd6376 Actually, you are right, I forgot about that. Very old fragments of the LXX did have the יהוה in paleo Hebrew. Now I'm stumped LOL. When did the יהוה get replaced with the kyrios?
Very informative!!! Three minutes into the clip is a coin with Hebrew inscription ... is there a name to the coin, or how might I pursue researching this? Thank You for your time you have invested in Hebrew and sharing :)
Acts 21:40 Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue.Acts 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence..) Acts 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a [Christ's] voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
great videos I learned alot. I think a really big proof for the Semitic NT would simply be found in Matthew 27:46 because Yeshua is speaking Hebrew. Its pretty obvious anyone in that type of pain and circumstance would only speak their native dialect. Then the scripture goes on to say some heard him and thought he was talking about Eliyahu who has a Hebrew name; so they understood Hebrew which was alive and well during that time.
Shalom Yirmeyahu: Howard uses the Shem Tov Matthew for the Hebrew text, but includes footnotes for variations found in 8 other Hebrew manuscripts. Yes, I do believe it is trustworthy, but this doesn't mean that I think it is 100% accurate. It is trustworthy as a 14th century Hebrew version of the original. I do believe that it is a copy of a copy of a copy of a etc. of an original Hebrew manuscript.
The New Testament is a thoroughly Greek document in its entirety. It only takes on a Semitic garment when it is translated into Aramaic, which was done early on. The beliefs of Christianity are not of Hebraic origin. Maybe some of them are from Egyptian religion, however.
well Jeff what do you think of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew by George Howard. I heard his Matthew Gospel was made from many manuscripts. Do you think its trustworthy?
@mrd6376 First of all, I believe that most of the people in the Synagogue spoke Hebrew. There may have been a few non-Hebrew speakers, and it would have been translated for them.
A more illuminating line of inquiry might be to ask about the Greek origins of the New Testament! Some research and thought on the location and impact of Saphhoris on Jesus Christ and Alexander Troas on Saint Paul, now that would be interesting.
You moron. Sapphoris was one of the locations migrated to after the revolt in 135. Church Fathers and Gnosticism introduced the idea of a trinity being 3 seperate people along with Ignatious and Plato philosophy. How does that impact the life of Jesus if the judeans wanted him to die in the first place for saying that he's God and that God is in him? Better yet, how does that even fit the life of Jesus if this happened after the fact. You self loving pagan. Go celebrate easter or something. Bet you still think Christmas had anything to do with Jesus. Ignorant.
@mrd6376 That is a good question and I was thinking about this other day. If the New Testament was translated into Greek by Jewish scribes, which I believe it was, they would use the Greek words kyrios and theos just as they did in the LXX.
Contractions are part of colloquial speech, but aren't the whole. Contractions can be found in more formal speech/writing,e.g. "I'm" in a business email. Other contractions may be colloquial & informal e.g. y'all, ain't. I learnt English contractions when I was learning it(French is my first language), and yet I didn't speak it. Also, just because the coins are in Hebrew, doesn't mean they spoke it, e.g. in Canada/US parts of our coins are in Latin. I don't disagree with point but the argument.
@mrd6376 I deal with this on my website, go to my home page, scroll down to "New Testament" on the left site and click on Semitic origins, then click on Hebrew in the 1st Century.
If the NT were written in Aramaic, wouldn't it still be of "Semitic" origin? I would guess that a Greek translation of either language might exhibit similar features, but I'm no scholar on that subject. I think the notion that Helenized Jews were totally ignorant of Koine Greek doesn't give them much credit. It makes sense that the NT would be written originally in the spoken language of the Jews, but I'm not sure you make a strong enough case against the use of Aramaic for this purpose.
@mrd6376 Historically, Jews who remain orthodox in their view of Torah have always retained the Hebrew language, even to this day. But there are the non-Orthodox Jews, who still study Torah, but do not retain the Hebrew language. I am sure this was the case in the first century and the reason for the LXX.
@melbourneopera The Jews spoke Hebrew in Israel at the time of Jesus, but also Aramaic. It is highly doubtful that many of them even knew Greek as Josephus tells us that the Jews discouraged learning anything Greek.
Just a side note: Josephus was probably a double traitor from the Jewish standing point: first he was part of the traitorous upper class of Herodians, created by Herod the Great, regarded as an Idumean usurper and Roman collaborator over the remnants of the Maccabean kingdom. From the death of Herod the Great to the first Jewish rebellion, the Herodians were losing power, due to the sons of Herod being removed by the Romans. Therefore they sided with the rebellion, but they were out-manouvered by the Zealots, Sicarii and others (Bet Shammai Pharisees) who opposed the traitorous Herodians, and the infighting contributed largely to the failure of this first rebellion, Josephus putting all the blame on all opponents against the Herodians. Since the Herodians were in essence Roman collaborators, the step for Josephus to defect to the Roman emperors was small indeed.
You read something into Josephus' writing that he didn't write. You said that Josephus said that, "the Jews do not learn other languages." However, what he wrote was, "our nation does not encourage those that learn the languages of many nations." He did not write, "the Jews do not learn other languages." It's not the same. There's a big difference. What's your angle?
If people really believe Jesus only spoke in one language how come He spoke to a Greek woman, and He spoke to the Jews with spoke Hebrew..... Look at the bible again.
Jesus or the way I would say his name yehoshu'עa/yeshu'עa probably could speak those other languages the point of this video is what is the language of the so called new testament ps NOTHING NEW ABOUT IT
The book of Maccabees in Greek btw... Is specifically about an evil king AntioChis. Jews had already been under Greek rule for 150 years. First by Alexander the Great who greatly adored the Jews and they named many children after him. Then by Ptolemy (when the 5 Books of Moses the LXX was translated) Then by the Seleucids and finally by AntioChis. Many of the Jews had become helinistis by the time of the Maccabees revolt. Jason the high priest wanted to build a coliseum. Greek remained a state language after the Maccabees revolt for some time. After the Hasmoneans had conquered Syria and Edom it allowed Aramaic which is also the language de Franca of these nations to flourish. Antepater betrayed John Hyrocanus And his two sons went to war with each other over rulership (none were davidic line Kings) Anetepater the immudeans son was given Judea province. The language de Franca of Galilee at the time of Jesus was The Galilean dialect of Aramaic while Jerusalem used the Aramaic script Hebrew. The Galilean dialect is called Herodian Aramaic. Koine Greek remained a trade language. From 50 AD to the Bar Kokhba revolt Jewish “zealot” nationalism was the dominate “messianic” force in Israel. During times of great nationalism people tend to return to there “root” Languages. Finding manuscripts in square Hebrew does not = language De Franca for 500 years prior. It’s a symptom of nationalism. In America under T-rump right now some sates have declared language de Franca laws do to the nationalism push and the disdain for immigrants. Does that mean English is the language of America ? No Spanish, English and French Canadian are the dominate languages in America. Paleo Hebrew is the only Hebrew not borrowed from other nations to begin with. It was in Babylon that “Hebrew square script” was born because it was forbidden to write in there own language that looks nothing like “Biblical Hebrew” as we call the Aramaic script now. Ancient Greek is Pale Hebrew (Phoenician) Without the shin and when vowels were added. So actually Greek is closer to its parent system that the aramaiciazed Hebrew. Jericho in Greek for example in Latin script “characters” Is IERO =“Holy, sacred” echo “sound IEROECHO In Greek the divine name is IEUE/IESE instead of YHWH. Yod is an Iuda/Iota IE’SUS JESUS
You said that we would write our daily task in our own native language, and that we wouldn't want to write it in another language. But even though Hebrew wasn't the native language of many Jews in the diaspora, they still wrote different things in Hebrew and studied bible in Hebrew. Couldn't writing recipes and tasks and stuff can be considered the same? Americans don't have a religious language like Muslims, Jews, and other various religions do.
The coin Jesus held had ceasar's image upon it; would that have been in Hebrew? Papias quote continues...Matthew wrote his second account in Greek, he also stated the other gospels were first written in Greek. Most Jewish funerary inscriptions in 1st century Palestine were also in Greek. It would be great for all Christians to find a 1st century biblical text in Hebrew or Aramaic.
They found greek fragments of the NT among the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran Written in Koine Greek. Though this isn't really spoken about because that would mean that Jesus Christ is real and would add more evidence to his existence as the messiah. Look up 7Q6A Mark 4:28 7Q15 Mark 6:48 7Q5 Mark 6:52, 53 7Q7 Mark 12:17 7Q6B-A.27:38 7Q9- Roman 5:11-12 7Q4- 1Tim.3:16, 4:1-3 7Q10-2Pet.1:15 7Q8-Js.1:23,24
Yiddish is Yiddish . According to Benjamin Freidman Yiddish is comprised 78% Aramaic words and 18% genuine Hebrew words according. Modern Yiddish which you call hebrew originated from Aramaic and so your Yiddish Hebrew is not really the Hebrew langauge at all.
Which Jesus? There are many people named Jesus, but there was never a Hebrew Messiah who lived supposedly 2000 years ago with the name Jesus. Research the Truth. Know the Truth. Speak the Truth.
@@jamesderr1344 now his name is Jesus the messiah if you don't like it and want to argue because of the name Joshua Yeshua and all those hebrew names well. Is still gona end up in Jesus name😂
Most of what I see in this video is circumstantial stuff relating to proving if Hebrew was continually used after the Roman conquest of Yerushalayim. There is no need for this. All Jews are quite well aware that Hebrew was continually used among Jews without any blank periods. It was regularly taught from father to son and later on, taught at schools. Aramaic was used to speak to non Jews who did not speak Hebrew and was also used for non liturgical reasons. It is literally only the Christian world that seems to have a debate or problem with understanding if Hebrew was continually used. The only reason some Jews never learned Hebrew is because they chose to disassociate themselves with the Religion and Cultural aspects.
Yet, my friend, what of us Messianic Gentiles (former Christians at that,) who are trying to associate ourselves with the Religion and Culture aspects? Shall we not learn from this man's teaching? Is it not correct?
At this point, a Gentile who is following Yeshua as Messiah according to Acts 15 and not according to the Constantinian doctrine of Christianity as best I can. (Catholic Basis.)
curlywolfone I absolutely agree that Jeff Benner does have certain information concerning the Tanakh that is useful and you can learn true and good things from him for sure. However, the point of this video is that he is saying that the New Testament has Hebrew origins...which I highly doubt. The real key is in the words and doctrines of the New Testament itself which is highly greekified thought. This is why Jews still exist today. The majority of Hellenistic Judaism followers around the 1st century ended up converting to Christianity and most of their descendants are as lost and unknown as the 10 tribes of the Northern kingdom. This is why from a Jewish perspective, the New Testament and it's teachings, are false teachings designed to remove the Israelite from his path. To a Hebrew minded person, the New Testament is quite clearly Greek Doctrines written in Greek language which says to me and most Jews that this was a breakoff group from 1st Century Judaism that spoke and wrote largely in Greek only. Ezra the Scribe himself tore his robes at hearing of Hebrews marrying foreign women and learning their language and following their customs. It was one of the very reasons that Yeremyah/Jeremiah claims that G-D sent the Babylonians to destroy the temple and exile the Jews in the first place. One striking idea that I present to people is that Israel sinned against HaShem and were exiled to Babylon for it. Were they still sinning when they were allowed to return to Israel? The answer is NO! This was without animal sacrifices as well. Isn't it striking that when Christianity came along and took hold that the temple was again destroyed just a few short years later?
With-all-due-respect, I have to say I find this very dubious. It IS commonly believed the Gospel of St. Matthew was written originally in either Aramaic or Hebrew. I am coming to see that Hebrew was indeed commonly still spoken in Jesus' day & so it was probably Hebrew. As for the rest, the other books were (except for those of Luke) written by Jews & thus have a Jewish idiom. They represent a Jewish mind speaking through Greek. Why would St. Paul write Hebrew epistles to his Greek cities? Why would St. Luke (who might have been a Syrian) write his two books to the apparently Greek Theophilus?
Paul Knew Greek. Paul was commanded by Jesus to go to the gentiles Not only this but Peter (with the use of Mark) as an interpreter wrote that Jesus was commanded to go to the ends of the earth. I'm gonna stay believing that Greek was the original language that the new testament was written in. Since most of the New testament was to the Greek Churches anyway. Would it make sense for it to be in Aramaic or Hebrew if the recipient wouldn't understand ? He said he would no longer go to the jews but the gentiles because Every synagogue that Paul went to. The Jew's that hated Christ followed him to try to discourage people from listening from ENVY. He was FORCED to flock to a different location to start a church. This was the new testament. If we suppose that it was written in Hebrew first. It wouldn't make sense for the Masoretes in 1000 AD to retranslate from Greek back to Hebrew if it was written in the first place.
The coin example is not the most persuasive, even today we have Latin on our money "e pluribus unam" "novus ordo secula.." There is much archaelogical evidence for Jews using Greek as their normal language too, even for their tombs in places. Also the LXX. The Hebrew manuscripts of everyday tasks is more convincing, though not proof necessarily. The Only books the Church Fathers said were in "Hebrew" or "aramaic" were MAtthew's "logoi" of Jesus, and Hebrews. Papias lived til AD105 not 150
Jeff, how can you say teach contrary to yahs torah. Does creator yahua need to convince you religous that he needs only one covenant is he two faced as man is? no!
Well, I am certainly a beginning student, so it is somewhat presumptuous of me to fly off trying to teach Hebrew already, but I do need to pick it back up. I shall be purchasing your texts with my next payday also. I browsed the bookstore and it is absolutely TERRIFIC! ARGH! Yer gonna cost me lots of money mi amigo! LOL! Well spent money atthat.
This character (Jeff A. Benner) is not notable. Bart E. Ehrman would eat him alive, humiliate him, and then spit him out. just another guy that wants to found another church of wall mart. i.e. think less live better....
Much like he did to James White huh..Bart's known for his tendency to get emotional and divisive When approached with documentation and ACTUAL TANGIBLE FACTS. Oracleofottawa You love to quench the hope of the world. You're really wicked. Would you like to speak against GOD? You're hopeless if you think you actually know what will happen when you see his face when you die.
I am enjoying your presentations Jeff. Being a student of Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, I find your teaching and intelligence to be very encouraging.
I think I mention this in the video, but just in case I didn't. It is a known fact that any new breakthroughs in Biblical archeology takes about 50 years to become mainstream knowledge in America. Over the past few decades it has become common knowledge in Israel that hebrew was the language of the Jews up until the Byzantine period. This means that it will be a few more decades before this becomes mainstream knowledge in America.
@mrd6376 Yes, there is evidence that the entire NT was originally written in Hebrew and one day I hope to do a video on that as well. Manu assume that Paul's letters were written to Greeks who would not know Hebrew. However, this is not the case, the Greek word translated as "Greek" is Hellenisti which means "Hellenized Jew," a Jew (who would speak Hebrew) who had adopted some aspects of Greek culture and thought.
Hello Jeff, I just love the way you present your lectures; you make the context in which Hebrew is written attractive and easy to be understood :-). You strike me as a ppl's person and are blessed with an accessible communication style. Shalom & Yah Bless
I really have learned a lot from your videos. I truly enjoy them. Thank you so much for your time and effort in these videos.
The point is that in the diaspora Hebrew existed only as a language of religious study. The language of the day to day business becomes your foundation to your world view (philosophy). I will be doing a video on this very subject in my "A History of Hebrew" series as this is a very important issue.
Thank you deborah, I appreciate the encouragement. I love to study and teach and I like people, I guess that is a good combination.
Acts 21:37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
Would the chief captain need to ask this if Greek was as universal in Jerusalem or Israel as we suppose?
Paul of course goes on to speak Hebrew to the various Jews joined in Jerusalem as shown above. Would he do this if Hebrew wasn't well understood among Israelites? or am I missing something?
Why do we see names as BAR ABBAS AND BAR JESUS and not the Hebrew BEN ???
Good point...but we see bar, etc, also in the Tanahk. Ever since Babylon, we've used a bit of Aramaic.
@Ava Anderson-Kemper I believe ירש (yarash) is the word.
@LVCIVSTVLLIVSATELLVS What evidence do you use to support your opinion that the Greek is the inspired word of God?
I instinctively believed the NT was atleast aramaic because the hebraic nature of the teaching demands it logically. What you show hear is awesome. A totally confirmation of my belief. I have said for years in my teaching if you can't build your theology out of the OT you shouldn't be teaching out of the NT.
@phreakazoas You bring up some very good arguments, but while these contractions are used in our writing today, and we use Latin on our coins today, is there evidence that the same things occurred in Ancient times, not that I have seen so far.
if I May I ask you, which books do you recommend to study church history? The books I have liked at all turn out to be catholic.
אני מאוהב בהתלהבות שלך
אתה המורה המושלם ביותר כלפי השפה הקדושה
אני גאה בך ואתה גורם לי לשמוח ברמות
@mrd6376 Actually, you are right, I forgot about that. Very old fragments of the LXX did have the יהוה in paleo Hebrew. Now I'm stumped LOL. When did the יהוה get replaced with the kyrios?
Thank you Professor, and I can say the same things about your instructional videos on Hebrew, just love'm.
Very informative!!! Three minutes into the clip is a coin with Hebrew inscription ... is there a name to the coin, or how might I pursue researching this? Thank You for your time you have invested in Hebrew and sharing :)
Acts 21:40 Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue.Acts 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence..)
Acts 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a [Christ's] voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
This is evidence that the book was written in Greek. If it was written in Hebrew, one would not need to mention this.
Wow, excellent point, never thought of that before. Thank you very much for sharing that.
@mrd6376 I believe that they used the name itself when speaking and when it was originally written they used the Tetragramaton.
great videos I learned alot. I think a really big proof for the Semitic NT would simply be found in Matthew 27:46 because Yeshua is speaking Hebrew. Its pretty obvious anyone in that type of pain and circumstance would only speak their native dialect. Then the scripture goes on to say some heard him and thought he was talking about Eliyahu who has a Hebrew name; so they understood Hebrew which was alive and well during that time.
Shalom Yirmeyahu:
Howard uses the Shem Tov Matthew for the Hebrew text, but includes footnotes for variations found in 8 other Hebrew manuscripts. Yes, I do believe it is trustworthy, but this doesn't mean that I think it is 100% accurate. It is trustworthy as a 14th century Hebrew version of the original. I do believe that it is a copy of a copy of a copy of a etc. of an original Hebrew manuscript.
The New Testament is a thoroughly Greek document in its entirety. It only takes on a Semitic garment when it is translated into Aramaic, which was done early on. The beliefs of Christianity are not of Hebraic origin. Maybe some of them are from Egyptian religion, however.
well Jeff what do you think of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew by George Howard. I heard his Matthew Gospel was made from many manuscripts. Do you think its trustworthy?
@ancienthebreworg that depends on if you are Greek, and if you believed in the Greek Gods and Goddesses.
Religion(s) is partial and political.
This month's Biblical Archaeology magazine has a feature on the Nash Papyrus.
@mrd6376 First of all, I believe that most of the people in the Synagogue spoke Hebrew. There may have been a few non-Hebrew speakers, and it would have been translated for them.
A more illuminating line of inquiry might be to ask about the Greek origins of the New Testament! Some research and thought on the location and impact of Saphhoris on Jesus Christ and Alexander Troas on Saint Paul, now that would be interesting.
You moron. Sapphoris was one of the locations migrated to after the revolt in 135. Church Fathers and Gnosticism introduced the idea of a trinity being 3 seperate people along with Ignatious and Plato philosophy. How does that impact the life of Jesus if the judeans wanted him to die in the first place for saying that he's God and that God is in him? Better yet, how does that even fit the life of Jesus if this happened after the fact. You self loving pagan. Go celebrate easter or something. Bet you still think Christmas had anything to do with Jesus. Ignorant.
@mrd6376 That is a good question and I was thinking about this other day. If the New Testament was translated into Greek by Jewish scribes, which I believe it was, they would use the Greek words kyrios and theos just as they did in the LXX.
Contractions are part of colloquial speech, but aren't the whole. Contractions can be found in more formal speech/writing,e.g. "I'm" in a business email. Other contractions may be colloquial & informal e.g. y'all, ain't. I learnt English contractions when I was learning it(French is my first language), and yet I didn't speak it. Also, just because the coins are in Hebrew, doesn't mean they spoke it, e.g. in Canada/US parts of our coins are in Latin. I don't disagree with point but the argument.
Thanks for sharing this!
@mrd6376 I deal with this on my website, go to my home page, scroll down to "New Testament" on the left site and click on Semitic origins, then click on Hebrew in the 1st Century.
Why you use
vav instead of earlier waw ?
If the NT were written in Aramaic, wouldn't it still be of "Semitic" origin? I would guess that a Greek translation of either language might exhibit similar features, but I'm no scholar on that subject. I think the notion that Helenized Jews were totally ignorant of Koine Greek doesn't give them much credit. It makes sense that the NT would be written originally in the spoken language of the Jews, but I'm not sure you make a strong enough case against the use of Aramaic for this purpose.
If you're Christian, don't worry. The Greek translation of the New Testament was divinely inspired, even if it wasn't the first edition.
@mrd6376 Historically, Jews who remain orthodox in their view of Torah have always retained the Hebrew language, even to this day. But there are the non-Orthodox Jews, who still study Torah, but do not retain the Hebrew language. I am sure this was the case in the first century and the reason for the LXX.
@melbourneopera The Jews spoke Hebrew in Israel at the time of Jesus, but also Aramaic. It is highly doubtful that many of them even knew Greek as Josephus tells us that the Jews discouraged learning anything Greek.
Whats the difference between aramaic and hebrew Yahshua spoke aramaic which language would you consider more, sacred if you will
Paleo Hebrew
Edgar...this guy teaches Paleo Hebrew...............facebook.com/#!/bryan.plater?fref=ts
I'm pretty sure he should know or atleast more than me
Just a side note: Josephus was probably a double traitor from the Jewish standing point: first he was part of the traitorous upper class of Herodians, created by Herod the Great, regarded as an Idumean usurper and Roman collaborator over the remnants of the Maccabean kingdom. From the death of Herod the Great to the first Jewish rebellion, the Herodians were losing power, due to the sons of Herod being removed by the Romans. Therefore they sided with the rebellion, but they were out-manouvered by the Zealots, Sicarii and others (Bet Shammai Pharisees) who opposed the traitorous Herodians, and the infighting contributed largely to the failure of this first rebellion, Josephus putting all the blame on all opponents against the Herodians. Since the Herodians were in essence Roman collaborators, the step for Josephus to defect to the Roman emperors was small indeed.
Hmmm Idumeans in Judea
@SilverRedIndigo שלום - אני לא יודע המילה הבטוי, עברית מודרנית שלי לא טוב, תודה
@mrd6376 I agree, the original LXX, written by Jews, would have used יהוה, and probably in the paleo Hebrew script such as we see in the Job fragment.
You read something into Josephus' writing that he didn't write. You said that Josephus said that, "the Jews do not learn other languages." However, what he wrote was, "our nation does not encourage those that learn the languages of many nations." He did not write, "the Jews do not learn other languages." It's not the same. There's a big difference. What's your angle?
When you read the Hebrew Matthew it is rich with Hebrew puns. The Greek Matthew has only a few that happened to be be a pun in Hebrew and in Greek!
If people really believe Jesus only spoke in one language how come He spoke to a Greek woman, and He spoke to the Jews with spoke Hebrew..... Look at the bible again.
Jesus or the way I would say his name yehoshu'עa/yeshu'עa probably could speak those other languages the point of this video is what is the language of the so called new testament ps NOTHING NEW ABOUT IT
I agree that NT was first written in Hebrew (MattiYah and Hebrews) and then others translated or used MattiYah work to make other gospels..
I guess i was wrong, it seems Papias could have lived as late as 150
The book of Maccabees in Greek btw...
Is specifically about an evil king AntioChis. Jews had already been under Greek rule for 150 years.
First by Alexander the Great who greatly adored the Jews and they named many children after him.
Then by Ptolemy (when the 5 Books of Moses the LXX was translated)
Then by the Seleucids and finally by AntioChis.
Many of the Jews had become helinistis by the time of the Maccabees revolt. Jason the high priest wanted to build a coliseum.
Greek remained a state language after the Maccabees revolt for some time.
After the Hasmoneans had conquered Syria and Edom it allowed Aramaic which is also the language de Franca of these nations to flourish.
Antepater betrayed John Hyrocanus
And his two sons went to war with each other over rulership (none were davidic line Kings)
Anetepater the immudeans son was given Judea province.
The language de Franca of Galilee at the time of Jesus was The Galilean dialect of Aramaic while Jerusalem used the Aramaic script Hebrew.
The Galilean dialect is called Herodian Aramaic.
Koine Greek remained a trade language.
From 50 AD to the Bar Kokhba revolt
Jewish “zealot” nationalism was the dominate “messianic” force in Israel.
During times of great nationalism people tend to return to there “root”
Languages.
Finding manuscripts in square Hebrew does not = language De Franca for 500 years prior. It’s a symptom of nationalism.
In America under T-rump right now some sates have declared language de Franca laws do to the nationalism push and the disdain for immigrants.
Does that mean English is the language of America ? No
Spanish, English and French Canadian are the dominate languages in America.
Paleo Hebrew is the only Hebrew not borrowed from other nations to begin with. It was in Babylon that “Hebrew square script” was born because it was forbidden to write in there own language that looks nothing like “Biblical Hebrew” as we call the Aramaic script now.
Ancient Greek is Pale Hebrew (Phoenician)
Without the shin and when vowels were added. So actually Greek is closer to its parent system that the aramaiciazed Hebrew.
Jericho in Greek for example in Latin script “characters”
Is IERO =“Holy, sacred”
echo “sound
IEROECHO
In Greek the divine name is IEUE/IESE instead of YHWH. Yod is an Iuda/Iota
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JESUS
You said that we would write our daily task in our own native language, and that we wouldn't want to write it in another language. But even though Hebrew wasn't the native language of many Jews in the diaspora, they still wrote different things in Hebrew and studied bible in Hebrew. Couldn't writing recipes and tasks and stuff can be considered the same? Americans don't have a religious language like Muslims, Jews, and other various religions do.
it is against halakic laws to read Greek or any language besides lashron Kodesh Hebrew for prayers.
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@@Nudnik1 what type of judean are you?
@@dreamymaxxx3394 one that can kick your arze
@@Nudnik1 i just read that in a gutural yiddish voice
The coin Jesus held had ceasar's image upon it; would that have been in Hebrew?
Papias quote continues...Matthew wrote his second account in Greek, he also stated the other gospels were first written in Greek. Most Jewish funerary inscriptions in 1st century Palestine were also in Greek. It would be great for all Christians to find a 1st century biblical text in Hebrew or Aramaic.
They found greek fragments of the NT among the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran Written in Koine Greek. Though this isn't really spoken about because that would mean that Jesus Christ is real and would add more evidence to his existence as the messiah.
Look up 7Q6A Mark 4:28
7Q15 Mark 6:48
7Q5 Mark 6:52, 53
7Q7 Mark 12:17
7Q6B-A.27:38
7Q9- Roman 5:11-12
7Q4- 1Tim.3:16, 4:1-3
7Q10-2Pet.1:15
7Q8-Js.1:23,24
Yiddish is Yiddish . According to Benjamin Freidman Yiddish is comprised 78% Aramaic words and 18% genuine Hebrew words according. Modern Yiddish which you call hebrew originated from Aramaic and so your Yiddish Hebrew is not really the Hebrew langauge at all.
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1.How many languages Jesus knew?
2.How many languages Jesus knows now?
Which Jesus?
There are many people named Jesus, but there was never a Hebrew Messiah who lived supposedly 2000 years ago with the name Jesus.
Research the Truth.
Know the Truth.
Speak the Truth.
@@jamesderr1344 yeshua
@@jamesderr1344 GOD spoke to me today and he said to view the alephbet
@@jamesderr1344 Jesus the one in the bible
@@jamesderr1344 now his name is Jesus the messiah if you don't like it and want to argue because of the name Joshua Yeshua and all those hebrew names well. Is still gona end up in Jesus name😂
Exactly AllOther, it is so simple :-)
Most of what I see in this video is circumstantial stuff relating to proving if Hebrew was continually used after the Roman conquest of Yerushalayim. There is no need for this. All Jews are quite well aware that Hebrew was continually used among Jews without any blank periods. It was regularly taught from father to son and later on, taught at schools. Aramaic was used to speak to non Jews who did not speak Hebrew and was also used for non liturgical reasons. It is literally only the Christian world that seems to have a debate or problem with understanding if Hebrew was continually used. The only reason some Jews never learned Hebrew is because they chose to disassociate themselves with the Religion and Cultural aspects.
Yet, my friend, what of us Messianic Gentiles (former Christians at that,) who are trying to associate ourselves with the Religion and Culture aspects? Shall we not learn from this man's teaching? Is it not correct?
What is a Messianic Gentile? Is that not the same thing as a Christian?
At this point, a Gentile who is following Yeshua as Messiah according to Acts 15 and not according to the Constantinian doctrine of Christianity as best I can. (Catholic Basis.)
Avner Levy No!
curlywolfone I absolutely agree that Jeff Benner does have certain information concerning the Tanakh that is useful and you can learn true and good things from him for sure. However, the point of this video is that he is saying that the New Testament has Hebrew origins...which I highly doubt. The real key is in the words and doctrines of the New Testament itself which is highly greekified thought.
This is why Jews still exist today. The majority of Hellenistic Judaism followers around the 1st century ended up converting to Christianity and most of their descendants are as lost and unknown as the 10 tribes of the Northern kingdom. This is why from a Jewish perspective, the New Testament and it's teachings, are false teachings designed to remove the Israelite from his path.
To a Hebrew minded person, the New Testament is quite clearly Greek Doctrines written in Greek language which says to me and most Jews that this was a breakoff group from 1st Century Judaism that spoke and wrote largely in Greek only.
Ezra the Scribe himself tore his robes at hearing of Hebrews marrying foreign women and learning their language and following their customs. It was one of the very reasons that Yeremyah/Jeremiah claims that G-D sent the Babylonians to destroy the temple and exile the Jews in the first place.
One striking idea that I present to people is that Israel sinned against HaShem and were exiled to Babylon for it.
Were they still sinning when they were allowed to return to Israel?
The answer is NO! This was without animal sacrifices as well.
Isn't it striking that when Christianity came along and took hold that the temple was again destroyed just a few short years later?
I get it. God existence does not hinge on a person's theology being disturbed.
With-all-due-respect, I have to say I find this very dubious. It IS commonly believed the Gospel of St. Matthew was written originally in either Aramaic or Hebrew. I am coming to see that Hebrew was indeed commonly still spoken in Jesus' day & so it was probably Hebrew. As for the rest, the other books were (except for those of Luke) written by Jews & thus have a Jewish idiom. They represent a Jewish mind speaking through Greek. Why would St. Paul write Hebrew epistles to his Greek cities? Why would St. Luke (who might have been a Syrian) write his two books to the apparently Greek Theophilus?
Yiddish is a combination of Hebrew and German. I don't know if Freidman is just ignorant or you misunderstood him.
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aramaic hebrew and arabic are so close to eachothers
and it was not langauges they all were semitic dilects
European Jews spoke Yiddish, which is German and Turkic
Paul Knew Greek. Paul was commanded by Jesus to go to the gentiles Not only this but Peter (with the use of Mark) as an interpreter wrote that Jesus was commanded to go to the ends of the earth. I'm gonna stay believing that Greek was the original language that the new testament was written in. Since most of the New testament was to the Greek Churches anyway. Would it make sense for it to be in Aramaic or Hebrew if the recipient wouldn't understand ? He said he would no longer go to the jews but the gentiles because Every synagogue that Paul went to. The Jew's that hated Christ followed him to try to discourage people from listening from ENVY. He was FORCED to flock to a different location to start a church. This was the new testament.
If we suppose that it was written in Hebrew first. It wouldn't make sense for the Masoretes in 1000 AD to retranslate from Greek back to Hebrew if it was written in the first place.
Do I know my ancient Jewish history? evidently better than you do :-)
The coin example is not the most persuasive, even today we have Latin on our money "e pluribus unam" "novus ordo secula.."
There is much archaelogical evidence for Jews using Greek as their normal language too, even for their tombs in places. Also the LXX. The Hebrew manuscripts of everyday tasks is more convincing, though not proof necessarily.
The Only books the Church Fathers said were in "Hebrew" or "aramaic" were MAtthew's "logoi" of Jesus, and Hebrews. Papias lived til AD105 not 150
Yirmeyahu23 comments reminded me of another connection. See Ps 22:1.
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Jeff, how can you say teach contrary to yahs torah. Does creator yahua need to convince you religous that he needs only one covenant is he two faced as man is? no!
Well, I am certainly a beginning student, so it is somewhat presumptuous of me to fly off trying to teach Hebrew already, but I do need to pick it back up. I shall be purchasing your texts with my next payday also. I browsed the bookstore and it is absolutely TERRIFIC! ARGH! Yer gonna cost me lots of money mi amigo! LOL! Well spent money atthat.
God bless. The oly father of the church is God.
I'd give you facts, but it looks like you prefer mythology.
bless YIHWEH in the shamayim and tov will toword adam
@modernrocks Thanks modernrocks :-)
This is a messianic Christian site? oy vey
Born2Flesh=mixed up
God bless. The only father of the church is God.
Pope=head of true church of Christ, Born2Flesh=barjesus worshiper.
This character (Jeff A. Benner) is not notable. Bart E. Ehrman would eat him alive, humiliate him, and then spit him out. just another guy that wants to found another church of wall mart. i.e. think less live better....
Perhaps you can enlighten us with your credentials, and videos of your own? Or, more likely, you just like to lob grenades? It isn't a contest...
Much like he did to James White huh..Bart's known for his tendency to get emotional and divisive When approached with documentation and ACTUAL TANGIBLE FACTS. Oracleofottawa You love to quench the hope of the world. You're really wicked. Would you like to speak against GOD? You're hopeless if you think you actually know what will happen when you see his face when you die.
The best way to make some one believe a lie, attache it to the TRUTH. We were warned by GOD. Read DANIEL 12. Christ is a LIE.
You don't have any facts on the subject? You have no argument to support with evidence?
protochris = lost, and of no value.