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Greek vs. Hebrew N.T.
By Rabbi Stanley
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• In Bible Schools today, they teach that the New Testament was written in Greek.
• We’ve all believed that for many years.
• Some teach that Greek was the language that everyone spoke in Israel when Yeshua was here on earth.
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• The movie by Mel Gibson (The Passion) as well as many other scholars believe they all spoke Aramaic.
• But most agree that the Brit Hadasha was written in Greek
• However, since the dead Sea scrolls were discovered in Qumran,
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• and some new information has surfaced,
• Messianic Scholars have had to look again at this topic a little closer.
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• The Christian Church as a whole rejects looking at this
• and they feel it’s almost heretical to challenge this belief.
• Well, we’re going to challenge it tonight. Because it’s important that we know.
• Why is it important?
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• The language of Yeshua and the Brit Hadasha is important to our understanding of the Jewish culture.
• And it’s important to understand the world in which Jesus lived, taught and interacted.
• So much of a culture is wrapped up in its language that you can not separate the two.
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• Knowing what language Yeshua spoke, helps us better understand the words, phrases and teachings that were used in the New Testament
• So what was the New Testament written in?
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• Let’s look at the facts.
• First there has been discovered a book of Mathew written in Hebrew that predates anything we have in Koine Greek
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• Koine Greek is the Greek that was used in the second temple period.
• The translations we use for our new testament, come from the Koine Greek.
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• These are the transcripts they say are the originals.
• The fact that we have a writing of Mathew in Hebrew that dates before the one we have in Greek forces us to consider what it was originally written in.
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• Another fact that we must take into consideration
• is that there was a man who wrote a series of books during the time of Yeshua whose name was Josephus.
• Josephus was a Jewish historian, • he wasn’t a Believer in Yeshua but he was a
good Pharisee.
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• In one of his books called the Jewish wars
• he tells about when Jerusalem was surrounded by the Romans during this time
• The Romans were speaking Greek to the people of Jerusalem
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• They were telling them in Greek to surrender.
• Josephus says that none of the people in Jerusalem understood what the Romans were speaking.
• In fact, Josephus had to translate to his fellow Jews so they could understand.
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• Only a few well educated Jews in Israel spoke any Greek at all.
• So the idea that they all spoke Greek back then doesn’t ring true.
• And that the Brit Hadasha’s original transcript was written in Greek isn’t correct either because we have a book of Mathew that predates it
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• We even see some evidences in the Scripture itself as to what they spoke.
• Act 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
• Here’s Yeshua Himself speaking to Shaul… in Hebrew.
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• Yeshua didn’t speak to him in Greek.
• Shaul spoke Greek, he was well educated.
• So Yeshua would’ve been able to speak to him in Greek if He wanted to.
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• He could’ve spoke to Shaul in Aramaic but He didn’t. He spoke in Hebrew.
• Some teachers point out John 19 vs. 19 and 20 to prove that Greek was what was used. Let’s look at that
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• Joh 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
• Joh 19:20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
• A Pastor pointed this out to me once and said see, there it is written in Greek!
• And I was like… are you blind??? • It also says it was written in Hebrew!!!
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• So it wasn’t just a few educated Jews who could understand Hebrew.
• Hebrew was the mother tongue
• We see this kind of evidence all throughout the Brit Hadasha…. John 5:2; 19:13, 17; Rev. 9:11; 16:16 Acts 26:14
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• So I’m not at all convinced that the Brit Hadasha was written in Greek.
• Now, let’s think like a Jew for a moment.• Every Jew knows that Hebrew is the Holy
Language. • Leshon Hagadesh we say in Hebrew• We know the so called “Old Testament”
was written in Hebrew.
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• So if a Jew was going to write the story of the Son of G-d, what would he write it in?
• The language of the Pagans, the Greek?
• No! They would’ve written it in Hebrew.
• Now there are different kinds of Hebrew,
• there’s ancient Hebrew that’s what the Old Testament was written in
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• And there’s Mishnaic Hebrew that was what was spoken in Yeshua’s time
• and then there’s modern Hebrew which is what they speak today
• but they are all Hebrew. Later in the year we’ll get more into the differences of these forms and so forth.
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• There’s even more evidence that the New Testament was written in Hebrew.
• As Yeshiva students, we want to know all the facts
• The dead sea scrolls are a collection of ancient writings that were discovered in 1947 near the Dead Sea in Israel
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• When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered
• they found that over 80% of the writings written during the second temple period
• were written in Hebrew NOT Greek. Greek and Aramaic Texts only comprised 20% all together
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• The new testament never even refers to the word Aramaic.
• Do a word search for Aramaic in the KJV and it doesn’t even come up.
• The NIV substitutes Aramaic at times where it says Hebrew
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• because those translators were under the impression that Hebrew was a dead language at the time of Yeshua.
• But even then in their footnotes they sometimes write “in Aramaic or Hebrew”
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• Another thing I hear quite often concerning this
• is that the New Testament was written in Greek so that the Jews that didn’t live in Israel but in other countries
• would be able to understand it as they all spoke Greek.
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• This shows a lack of Jewish culture and understanding.
• Any Jew would know that Hebrew was taught to the Jews of the Diaspora.
• It was necessary in order to read the Old Testament in its original language!
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• Matter of fact, even today there is something done in Jewish synagogues called a Bar Mitzvah.
• When a boy is 13, they celebrate that he has become a man.
• In this celebration, It is common for the boy to come and read entire portions from the Scriptures in Hebrew!
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• Now, would they have later copied it into Greek for Gentile readers?
• Sure, and that’s what we have today. A copy in the Greek.
• Everything we need to know is there in the Greek.
• Now that should not shake our foundation.
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• That should not cause us to lose our faith.
• Matter of fact, our faith should not be in the Bible.
• Does that surprise you?
• Was Abraham’s faith based on the Bible?
• No! Cause a Bible didn’t even exist then.
• Where should our faith be?
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• Our Faith should be in G-d!
• If every Bible in the world was burned tomorrow, it wouldn’t change a thing for me.
• I still have a relationship with Adoni
• And that’s good news.
• Is it good to have the Bible? Of course
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• We can learn more about G-d by reading the Bible.
• It’s also a manual in how to live.• I love Torah• I love Brit Hadasha• But that’s not where my faith is.• My faith is in HaShem• end 1 here
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• Ok, there’s even more evidence. It just goes on and on.
• In Telegu is it proper grammar to start a sentence with the word “and”?
• In English, you cant start a sentence with the word “and”. It’s bad grammar.
• It’s also bad grammar in Greek.
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• Now think about that for a second.
• How many verses have you read in the Brit Hadasha that start with the word “and”. There’s hundreds of them! Hundreds.
• In Hebrew you can start a sentence with “and”, it’s very common. It’s called the vav connective.
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• The Greek copy that we have is obviously translated from Hebrew. There’s no way around it.
• You want more evidence you say…• Write this man’s name down…Dr Robert
Lindsey, I will be quoting from him a lot. • One of the greatest Bible scholars of our
time.
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• He was fluent in Greek and Hebrew and other languages as well.
• He translated the book of Mark from Greek into Hebrew.
• He discovered something rather interesting when he did this.
• He found that when he read the translation in Hebrew rather then from Greek, it made more sense.
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• Also, it wasn't as disjointed as it was in Greek, it actually began to flow
• and many of the things that were written even had more meaning to the Hebrew ear.
• We’ll be studying a lot of Dr. Lindsey’s material later in the year as well.
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• He is 100% convinced that the Brit Hadasha was originally written in Hebrew
• and because of his discovery, almost ALL other Messianic scholars now believe the same thing.
• And you know it only makes sense.• The Bible is a book written by Jews of
course they wrote it in Hebrew.
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• Many of the Church Fathers wrote about the Hebrew book of Mathew that we have.
• I’m hoping you will recognize some of these names!
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• Irenaeus (170 C.E.) Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect. (Irenaeus; Against Heresies 3:1)
• Origen (c. 210 C.E.) The first [Gospel] is written according to Matthew,
• the same that was once a tax collector, but afterwards an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah,
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• who having published it for the Jewish believers, wrote it in Hebrew. (quoted by Eusebius; Eccl. Hist. 6:25)
• Was every Jewish Believer highly educated?• Could it be that Hebrew was their mother
tongue???• Eusebius (c. 315 C.E.) Matthew also, having
first proclaimed the Gospel in Hebrew,
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• when on the point of going also to the other nations, committed it to writing in his native tongue,
• and thus supplied the want of his presence to them by his writings. (Eusebius; Eccl. Hist. 3:24)
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• Epiphanius (370 C.E.) They [the Nazarenes] have the Gospel according to Matthew quite complete in Hebrew,
• for this Gospel is certainly still preserved among them as it was first written, in Hebrew letters. (Epiphanius; Panarion 29:4)
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• It is undisputable!• And it’s important because we have to
understand that what we have, is a translation. So there may be small errors.
• Remember, our faith is in G-d! NOT in a book.
• I’ve seen many people fall away from the faith because their faith was in the Book and not who the book is about.
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• When scholars and serious Bible students come across some of these small errors
• and they believed that the New Testament was originally written in Greek and therefore infallible…
• When they came across these errors, it rocked their foundation and they said
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• There’s errors in G-d’s Word and they fell away. Some of them were good friends of my parents.
• We couldn’t believe that these people rejected Yeshua after being Saved for so many years.
• We struggled trying to understand how something like that could happen
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• But it became clear to us. It’s because their entire faith was in the Book and not in the Creator.
• When your faith is in your relationship with G-d, nothing can shake you. Bible or no Bible.
• Does that ring true with your spirit?
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• This teaching is a foundation. We can’t go on forward until we all understand this.
• It is key in the Messianic way of thinking.
• It gets us out of the Greek mindset and into the Hebraic mindset.
• In many Churches, you will find strong opposition to this, so you have to be ready.