Posted on 06/18/2010 12:16:49 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
As I understgand it the man was not speaking from a theological point of view, but a linguistic one. He was speaking strictly on the ten commandents of the old testament and how they are/should be translated as written.
He was not philosophying on the teachings of Christ.
Anti-Shepherdism bares its ugly head.
Not to mention anti-marginalized-lonerism.
Jimmy Carter relieved, Bill Clinton not.
I said, "Torah," not Tanakh. I wouldn't say we never study the Tanakh, but we sure don't have "Tanakh classes." I guess that must be why I never hear anyone speaking "Biblical Hebrew" like you do, huh?
ML/NJ
It's all connected.
I know that and you know that, a linguist can be just interested in the linguistic points w/o believing as we do.
Understood.
As someone who studies the Bible extensively, with cross reference commentaries that go back centuries and even over 2000 years, allow me to say Hoffman is full of malarkey and doesn’t have clue what he’s talking about. EG: the commandment about coveting your neighbor’s wife uses the words lo sachmod (the ch is guttural). Lo is “do not”; sachmod is 2d person singular for covet. The root word chamad is a common root word for many related human sentiments such as to cherish or to highly value something or someone.
...but only when Hillary's out of town!
Cheers!
Oh, I forgot to mention, I study it in the original hebrew, with translations in aramaic and many commentaries that draw heavily from the Talmud that explain accurate translations of words in great detail. Does this idiot think he knows the meaning of the text better than people who were study it 2 and 3000 years ago?
Moron. That’s the stupidest arcticle I think I’ve ever read.
“Wet” dreams are a natural part of male adolescence. Have they involuntarily “sinned” for having them?
So... you “met this guy a couple of weeks ago”, “and am now reading his most recent book considered here”
Go ahead and be a follower of this scholar, the Bible scripture that Paul wrote to the Corinthians in 1:12 was, “Now this I say, that every one of you saith,I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and [I of Dr Joel M Hoffman “bible” scholar]”.
Go follow this scholar, and remain a Corinthian...
For when Dr Joel Hoffman, translates “thou shalt not covet” to “do not take”; and “woman” not “virgin”... Hoffman is only demonstrating his rejection of Christ’s WORDS; for GOD the HOLY SPIRIT inspired these original WORDS to holy men who accurately recorded them; and then 16th century “real” scholars proceeded to correctly translate them in their original English translation we hold in our hands today.
Maybe, Dr Joel Hoffman’s translation “thou shalt not covet” is done this way because he covets all the time and he wants to be absolved of it so he needs a new translation to cover up his covet behavior...
I have found that many scholars use “modern” translation approaches; but this typically is a disguise of these kind of men today to reject the WORDs of GOD and Jesus Christ, simply by saying that everything in the translations we hold in our hands today are in error, and that ONLY dudes like Dr Joel M Hoffman have the truth. Kinda sounds like the Pope and the Catholics...
If “thou shalt not covet” means “thou shalt not take,” what about “thou shalt not steal?” Why would there be two commandments against stealing?
Thanks for the ping. He is correct that many words in any English Bible have various meanings or shades of meaning in the original language (Hebrew or Greek).
Dude ... I’m not even going to acknowledge that remark.
“...just a bass-playing Irish Indian Biker. :-) “
Was there a check-box on the census form for that?
No, I had to create my own (see my tag line!) LOLOL
It really depends on who the sheep are, doesn't it. If the shepherd is the guy down the road that sells me wool and a leg of mutton every once and a while, then he isn't that special. If I am one of the sheep, then the shepherd is pretty special, providing for me and watching over me.
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