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Mosaic!
Posted on 07/22/2020 3:57:07 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
I never paid any attention to it before, but when looking in the reference section of an old Bible, I noticed a picture of Moses holding the 10 Commandments and on them was Masoretic Text which was not in existence in Moses' time.
Moses smashed the first set that God etched in Exodus 31:8 and chiseled out the second set.
The language during Moses' time would not have been Masoretic Text with its diacritic markings, nor its predecessor, Aramaic Hebrew, nor its predecessor, Paleo Hebrew. Paleo Hebrew though would have been in use during the time of the Davidic Kingdom and a few centuries before that owing to the Gezer Calendar, Silver Scroll, and other artifacts from the time period of the 10th to the 8th centuries BC that have been discovered having Paleo Hebrew inscribed upon them and hearkening back to a time just before them.
The Samaritan Pentateuchs origins stretch back to Paleo Hebrew, with the Dead Sea Scrolls containing scriptures written in it.
Moses was versed in all the knowledge of the Egyptians according to the Old Testament/Tanakh, and thus given he would not have etched MT to create the second set of 10 commandments, nor used Aramaic Hebrew, which was used by the Jews in Ezra's time before MT was used after Aramaic Hebrew, nor used Paleo/Proto Hebrew which was in use before Aramaic Hebrew, the only possibility would seem to be Proto-Sinaitic used by Moses to etch the second set.
Egyptian? They were in Egypt for a long time and it would have been more natural than the other languages. Odd that slaves were able to read — reading requires time for schooling. If the the tablets were not meant to be read by the masses then maybe a more appropriate or formal language used for religious ceremonies — if there was one — in the same way Latin is used in academics.
I always thought a commercial for the tablet should have used the Mosses story. For example, “You can’t smash this tablet as easily as Moses did...”
So the earliest books of the Bible were an oral tradition in a Caananite-like language, and after a few re-translations over thousands of years it finally got recorded in Masoretic Hebrew?
God wrote the Ten Commandments, not Moses. He would not have been limited in any way by what Moses knew at the time. If his intent was that the Hebrews would ultimately read and write in Hebrew, why would it make any sense to write the Commandments in a language that would have no future relevance to his people?
Thanks for the ping.
The rest of the Proto-Sinaitic keyword, (mostly) chrono sort:
The MT and the LXX were both preceded by Aramaic Hebrew, which was preceded by Paleo Hebrew, which was preceded by Proto Sinaitic. Before that it’s anyones guess.
Good point.
I thought Fauci wrote the Ten Commandments?
Thou shalt have no other doc before me
Thou shalt not venture out
Thou shalt not come within six feet
Remember the mask, to keep it on at all times
Honor thy father and mother by keeping them in an infected nursing home
Thou shalt have no school, nor sports, nor church, nor movies, nor dining out
Thou shalt not commit adultery unless you’ve assessed the risks
Thou shalt not steal unless it’s in a mob protesting injustice
Thou shalt not mingle with thy neighbor
Thou shalt not covet the life you had before the virus
Wait for it....
Mosaic!
No, why would they write in Paleo Hebrew during the David Kingdom and or in Proto Sinaitic script before that if the 10 commandments were etched by God in something else?
Did you start studying things in the womb?
I hate you :-)
Google “Sinai Inscriptions”, and then select “images” from the menu, and you’ll see the graffiti written by Hebrew slaves working in the mines.
They mention Moses, and a few other things.
see Petrovich’s book, “The World’s Oldest Alphabet”, on Amazon, for more details.
Point is, the oldest language of Hebrew, if so, would not be Masoretic Text or Aramaic Hebrew but rather Paleo Hebrew or proto Sinaitic script.
I read that out of 7,000 spoken languages only half have a written language
Seen them.
Which is why I went forward with the Biblical languages but also traced the Biblical languages backwards too.
Proto Sinaitic Hebrew is not MT, nor is it Aramaic Hebrew or Paleo Hebrew tracing back again to proto Sinaitic, which could be a contender, if any of them were, for the 10 Commandments.
Good one!
Btw, given that Abraham came out of Ur and they would have used Cuneiform I’m Ur, is that author saying that Hebrew was around even then?
Where are the inscriptions or written evidence to testify to this?
Proto Sinaitic script as being an early Hebt)rew script has been proven, so did Abraham use Proto Sinaitic?
*in Ur, ...
Let me check my copy that I bought off a guy in NYC
(Sunday school marm) “King James English! It was good enough for Jesus, so it must’ve been good enough for Moses.” /Humor-off
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