[Phinneous]

I am posting this while eating re-heated cholent (a hot stew eaten on the Sabbath day.) Maybe this is how Karaites ate their cholent after sitting in the dark without fire on their "Sabbath." (I kid.... those who know will know)

[lee martell]

We’re talking about syntax that was perhaps used at that time (of inscription) for subject of great import. Many languages have various dialects for specific purposes. I believe the Japanese language has a dialect for business use, one for home use, maybe more than that. Olde English is found in many historic documents from England and America, when it was still new to most of the earth.

[smokingfrog]

https://archive.org/stream/treatiseonuseof00driv#page/n7/mode/2up

[Tupelo]

Gotta disagree. I think the Bible is just fine but;
The older I get the more I am thinking the translations are in many ways screwed up. I think I would be a better Christian IF I could read the Old Testament in Hebrew and the New Testament in it's original language Greek or maybe Aramaic(sp?). And maybe the books that were left out or lost.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Like Chinese, there is a lot of implication in Hebrew. B’reishit means at (or in) the head of [something implied]. You have to follow the story to get the sense of what this was at the head of (in this case, the creation order). If you try to turn it into mathematical equations you will fail.

The need to follow the story doesn’t mean that what non-Christian Jews today call the Oral Torah is what they crack it up to be! There is a spiritual sense however, and it’s carried by the Holy Spirit. And it’s ultimately a redemption story with a happy ending, except for those who dig in and refuse it.

[SubMareener]

Here is some recent research into how the Hebrew letters in the Bible describe the world. The Meru Project is based on 30 years of research by Stan Tenen into the origin and nature of the Hebrew alphabet, and the mathematical structure underlying the sequence of letters of the Hebrew text of Genesis.

Here is another book that explains Coincidences in the Bible and in Biblical Hebrew. BTW, Hiam Shore makes a strong case that these are not coincidences, but evidence of God's plan.

Unexplainable coincidences abound in the Bible and in biblical Hebrew. For example, the Hebrew words for “ear” and “balance” are derived from the same philological root. But it was only toward the end of the nineteenth century that scientists discovered that the human body’s balancing mechanism resides in the ear. Coincidences in the Bible and in biblical Hebrew details scores of such incidents, including:

• Words in Hebrew that show intent to convey a message
• Coincidences in the Hebrew language that show intent to convey hidden information, and occasionally information that could not be expected to be known in biblical times
• Passages in the Bible that convey or assume information or knowledge unlikely to have been known in biblical times
• Other coincidences from Jewish tradition or Jewish history

Author Haim Shore discusses two types of coincidences—those that can be considered just that, and others that are subject to rigorous statistical analysis. Altogether, nineteen analyses have been conducted with highly significant results. Simple plots that accompany the analyses clarify their meanings and implications so that no prior statistical know-how is required.

[Iscool]

I hate to tell you this but your Sabbath was over at 6 PM...

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Is it possible this was changed after the influx and overall acceptance of Political Correctness ? Every Gender , Religion , Creed and Race is effected either Inversely or Adversely by PC !

[right way right]

“In the beginning”
Make perfect sense to me.
There has only been one “Beginning” so it is not a matter “of”.

[dangus]

Sadly, starting with St. Jerome, Western Christianity has looked largely to the Hebrew texts for biblical translations. The Greek text is actually much more reliable. Jerome presumed the Greek text was a poor translation of the Hebrew text; in fact the Septuagint is based on a different Hebrew text than the one used by post-Temple Jews.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I'll take the word on the Word from Pastor Melissa Scott (word!):

[Cvengr]

Here’s a great little primer on how to write the Hebrew alphabet.

http://www.lucygenick.org.uk/downloadablePDFs/BOTA-Hebrew_Letter_Workbook.pdf

Any recommendations on what type of pen to use in learning to write in Hebrew?