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  1. How modern Hebrew helps you understand the Bible

    Everyone tells you these are separate studies. Watch what happens when you stop treating them that way.

    #biblicalhebrew #modernhebrew #hebrewbible #learnhebrew #torah

  2. Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

    "Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

    Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

    The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

    forward.com/news/834539/texas-

  3. 𝐘𝐀𝐇 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐓𝐕 100 𝐁𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌|𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐖

    https://youtube.com/live/YrFJwbMSrC0?is=QTEXwBG0asNNznPr

    #AngelsBible #CHRIST #CHRISTNewTestament #CHRISTCHRISTIANITY #CHRISTIAN #CHRISTIANCHURCH #CHRISTIANITY #CHRISTIANITYAmericans #CHRISTIANS #CHURCH #CHURCHTORAHPRAISE #Deuteronomy #𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐁𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 #𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇Themosthighyahonly #𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 #𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 #𝐇𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐒 #𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓 #𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘HebrewIsraelites #𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 #𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐍 #𝐑𝐔𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐇𝐀𝐊𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐇 #𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 #𝐘𝐀𝐇 #𝐘𝐀𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄AfricanAmericans #𝐘𝐀𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 #𝐘𝐀𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘𝐓𝐕100 #ETernalGod #Exodus #Genesis #GOD #HEBREW #HebrewHeritage #HebrewRadio #HebrewScriptures #HebrewBible #HebrewIsraelites #Hebrews #Holiness #Holinesschurch #Holy #HolyChurch #HolyHoliness #holySpirit #HolySpirit #IDOL #IDOLATRY #IsaiahOldTestament #ISLAM #ISRAEL #ISRAELITES #KJVBIBLE #LIVEBIBLE #LiveBible #LORD #MALAKHBible #NEUROMELANIN #NEWTESTANENT #OLDTESTAMENT #Praise #PRAISEGOD #PraiseMusic #PRAISEWORSHIP #Preachers #Preaching #Radio #Redeemer #RedeemerBIBLE #Religion #SABBATHBIBLE #SALVATION #SAVIOR #SaviorChurchBible #SCRIPTURES #Study #TANAKH #TESTAMENT #TheCovenantLawOfYAH #THEMOSTHIGH #Yhwh
  4. #Jeremiah 38:6a seems to me ungrammatical in the MT:
    וַיִּקְח֣וּ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֨כוּ אֹת֜וֹ אֶל־הַבּ֣וֹר׀ מַלְכִּיָּ֣הוּ בֶן־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ
    "They took Jeremiah and they threw him into the pit - Malkiyahu the king's son."

    It cannot be "the pit of Malkiyahu" because הבור has a definite article.

    Indeed, the Masoretes seemed to want to help readers exclude reading it as "the pit of" by adding a vertical line after "the pit."

    #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism
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  5. A fun little variant was pointed out to me by a friend:
    MT Ps 84:8: יֵרָאֶ֖ה אֶל־אֱלֹהִ֣ים בְּצִיּֽוֹן
    LXX: ὀφθήσεται ὁ Θεὸς τῶν θεῶν ἐν Σιών
    Pesh: ܢܬܚܙܐ ܐܠܗ ܐ̈ܠܗܝܢ ܒܨܗܝܘܢ (= LXX)
    Vulg: parebunt apud Deum in Sion

    The only difference is the vowel in אל. The vowel in אל determines whether it is a noun (construct "God of") or a preposition ("to"), and thus whether the next word אלהים is "gods" or "God."

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    #Psalms #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  6. I'm entertained by a scholar arguing for the #DocumentaryHypothesis objecting to the Supplementary Hypothesis because it implies that the redactors are incompetent. If the redactors were competent, there would be no evidence to support the Documentary Hypothesis...
    #HebrewBible #BiblicalStudies

  7. I think it is very odd that in Psalm 51:14b (MT) = OG Psalm 50:14b = English Psalm 51:12b, the spirit is described as:
    MT נְדִיבָ֣ה ("willing")
    OG ἡγεμονικῷ ("masterly")
    Pesh ܡܫܒܚܬܐ ("glorified")
    Vulg potenti ("powerful")

    No idea why...

    #Psalms #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  8. Okay, a rabbit trail may have revealed a funny point about the NRSV's textual history.

    #Genesis 10:14 = #1Chronicles 1:12 lists the peoples of Pathros, Kasluh, & Kaphtor, mentioning in passing that the Philistines came from Kasluhites.

    Oddly, #Jeremiah 47:4 and #Amos 9:7 identify the Philistines as coming from Kaphtor, not Kasluh.

    What's going on here? Dunno. Perhaps a marginal addition was incorporated into the main text in the wrong spot in Genesis.

    1/?

    #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  9. In #Nehemiah 10:30 (=10:29 English), where MT reads ʾaddîrēyhem, LXX reads καὶ κατηράσαντο αὐτοὺς. Might this represent Hebrew ʾaddîrûhem, interpreted as an (Aramaic) Aphʿel of ndr? Apparently the verb ndr does not have a hiphʿil form in use in Biblical Hebrew.

    #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  10. #Nehemiah 6:16
    Where MT reads wyrʾw (“and they saw”), OG, Pesh, and even Vulg read “and they feared” (#Hebrew wyyrʾw, +/- y).

    KJV and NASB follow MT; NIV and NRSV follow the other versions.
    #HebrewBible

  11. An odd gender-swap:
    #Nehemiah 6:14 (MT) lists Nehemiah's opponents Toviyah and Sanballat, as well as an otherwise unattested "prophetess No`adyah."

    In OG, Pesh, and Vulg No`adyah is a (male) prophet. The difference is one letter (הַנְּבִיאָה֙ vs. הנביא).

    Did MT uniquely add a letter to make an opposing prophet female? Or did all of the other versions drop the letter in favor of the more common masculine form, making her male?

    #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  12. #Nehemiah 6:12-13 includes a curious redundancy in MT:
    וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה וְסַנְבַלַּ֖ט שְׂכָרֽוֹ׃ לְמַ֤עַן שָׂכוּר֙ ה֔וּא לְמַֽעַן־אִירָ֥א
    Tobiyah & Sanballat hired him so that he was hired so that I would fear.

    I notice that #Latin Vulg seems to agree with MT in the redundancy:
    et Tobias et Sanaballat conduxissent eum. Acceperat enim pretium, ut territus facerem

    1/?
    #HebrewBible

  13. What interests me is the question how, if the DSS/OG reading is original, the shorter MT reading could have appeared. The proposed reconstruction of 4QSam-a's text reads:
    והנער
    [עמם ויביאוהו לפני יהוה וישחט אביהו את ]הזבח [כ]אשר
    [יעשה מימים ימימה ליהוה ............... וי]שחט

    with a long gap.

    But if that's original, how can one explain the shorter reading?

    8/? #DeadSeaScrolls #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  14. Most such explanations can go either way, which is why #TextualCriticism is difficult and often inconclusive.

    In this case, one of the #DeadSeaScrolls supports OG over MT (which doesn't solve the issue, since variations occur among DSS).

    4QSam-a:
    בי]ת יהוה שילה והנער
    ]הזבח [כ]אשר
    וי]שחט

    So a full line comes between the second-to-last word of 1 Sam. 1:24 and the start of v.25, w/ two words echoing OG.

    7/? #TextualCriticism #HebrewBible