[patlin]

I just got done reading a “Jesus the Pharisee” by Rabbi Harvey Falk. While I do not support this notion that YHVH only requires gentiles to follow the Noahide laws as there is absolutely no Scriptural basis for it, the book was a great help in understanding 1st century culture & idioms. This notion that Christendom teaches that the Scriptures were read in Greek in the synagogues and the Hebrew schools of Shammai & Hillel is about as far out in outer space as one could get.

2 other enlightening books are ‘Understanding the difficult words of Jesus’ & “New light on the difficult words of Jesus’ by David Bivin are also great sources for understanding the parables Yah’shua spoke. I found it quite interesting that all the parables I have cross referenced thus far were taken from Jewish rabbinic parable literature that Yah'shua had obviously studied and had memorized.

[rzman21]

Most of the Hellenistic Jews spoke and read Greek rather than Hebrew in the 1st century.

The modern Jewish texts are corruptions. The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that the older Hebrew was far closer to the Septuagint than the Massoretic texts used by Jews and Protestants.