June 29, 2007

  • DVD notes

    I recently watched a DVD titled:

    biblical collector series: who wrote the Bible

    Some thoughts or things I found interesting....

     

    1948 or 47 dead sea scrolls found...date Israelites first went back to their land

    Someone said at one point the Israelites lost the ability to speak/read/understand the Hebrew Language after being in captivity for a while. 

    the book of Daniel had both Hebrew and aramaic words in it..as early as the 6th century BC
    aramaic was a "universal" lingo and since Daniel was in government he would have known it.


    when the Israelites who no longer knewHebrew returned to read the Holy Scriptures, they
    translated them into Greek.  In so doing they made them crystal clear as to what Scripture was saying and also were able to record more words via what we call today the septuagint(sp?)

    When Hebrew was again their lingo of choice, the transcribed everything back but would not accept the new books written only in Greek.

    however the Bibles up until Luther's Faith Alone thing {which seems odd after knowing it's have faith and acts of righteousness...or as the popular song says "Trust AND Obey"} had Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic books

    Luther even still used the Greek books but in the 1500's his Bibles placed them in between the OT and NT. 

    Up until 1826 even the protestant rulers of England kept the Bibles this way and one could be beheaded for printing a Bible w/o these Greek texts.

    in 1827 some English persons got a hold of a Bible where the Greek insert was torn out and massed printed them that way.

    (this could explain why the first KJV Bible in 1604 -commonly called the he Bible because it translated Ruth as a he not she- that I saw on display when the Dead Sea scrolls exhibit came thru had those books that we know the catholic church still uses.

    ON the DVD they said that many of the things Jesus and Paul said are quoted in those Greek texts.

    they also stressed that the Greek versions of the OT and it's other books were so crystal clear that everyone would be believers just by reading them.

    What's wrong with that?

    anyone else know anything about this?