Is there anyone who is learning biblical hebrew? (or biblical greek, aramaic)?
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I've been learning Aramaic on my own for years and I'm quite fluent now.  I'll be studying Hebrew at Seminary next year, but I've been doing my own study of Hebrew off and on over the last three years.\n\nShlam. (Peace)
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Most major Universities have a Jewish studies/oriental studies/religious studies department where you can take a course in Biblical Hebrew. THE Place to learn is JTS - see http://www.jtsa.edu/progs/bib/bible.pdf which trains most US Jewish studies academics.\n\nAnother option is to take some time and come to Israel. The Hebrew University has an excellent overseas school with summer courses (if you can't take a whole year or semester) see http://overseas.huji.ac.il/sum_course_lang_bib.php\n\nI would think that Christian Bible Colleges also offer such classes, but I have no experience there
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I love this one - http://www.watchtower.org/bible/ - It's translated from the original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic languages and written in modern , understandable English.
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I learned Greek through J. Gresham Machen's textbook and am currently teaching a class with that text but I like William Mounce's textbook even better.  Mounce gives more explanations and his method teaches the rules better which results in less rote memorization and better appreciation for the consistency of the language.  Check out www.teknia.com for info and resources from Mounce.  I have had no exposure to Dobson.\nPersevere in learning Greek and you will see the glory of Christ in greater brilliance than ever!
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Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament), Greek (New Testament)\nI know because I read the Bible and study it as well.
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www.freedownloads.com/hebrew
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This site has transliterations: http://www.learn-hebrew.co.il\nIt was just launched this week.
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My son might be interested. He recently returned from Hebrew U. in Jerusalem where he studied OT Hebrew....email me and i will get you his email address.....
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The bible was written over thousands of years, most of the Old Testament in Hebrew (parts in Aramaic), and the New Testament written in Greek. \nThe problem is that languages change with time and misuse, so old books need retranslating to maintain accuracy (i.e. does the translation mean to a modern reader in the translated language what it did to a contemporary reader in the ancient language).\nModern Greek is different from 1st century Greek. Modern Hebrew is different from ancient Hebrew. US English is different from UK English. Egyptian arabic is different from Modern Standard Arabic.\nwww.biblegateway.com has 19 English translations plus lots of other languages, including Arabic. Most translators work from the oldest texts available in the original languages. Some of these are very, very old.\nFor a demo of some of the difficulties translators face, paste a paragraph into http://babel.altavista.com/tr, ask it to translate it into a different language, then cut & paste it back in to translate it back into the start language and see what you get.\nThere is some useful stuff about bible translation on www.ibs.org.\nIn the 2nd letter from the apostle Paul to Timothy chapter 3 he wrote:-\n    14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,\n    15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.\n    16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,\n    17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.\n\nFind an up to date translation (e.g. NIV or NKJV in English) or Arabic if you find it easier, read it with an open mind and you will be blessed.\n\nShukran for your question.
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Aramaic would be my guess.
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There are many differences:\nChronologically- Biblical Hebrew is obviously the language of most of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), which most scholars believe was written between about 1000 BCE (Some of the Psalms) and the 2nd century BCE (the book of Daniel, written mostly in Aramaic), with the bulk of the work having been written around the time of the exile (6th century BCE). This applies only to the consonants of the text-the vowels were not added until the Middle Ages starting about the 8th century CE.\nModern Hebrew was revived in the late 19th century in Palestine, and is the language spoken in modern day Israel.\n\nPhonologically- Although the exact pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew is uncertain (We don't have the tapes), it is fairly certain that there were several major differences in pronunciation from Modern Hebrew. Most of these differences can be attributed to the influence of European languages, which do not have certain consonants in their inventory, and therefore, the Ashkenazi Jews who spoke these European languages neutralized their pronunciation: \nIn BH ayin was pronounced as it is in Arabic (a voiced pharyngeal fricative), and was distinct from aleph (a glottal stop) In Modern Hebrew, both ayin and aleph are pronounced as a glottal stop (similar to the pause between English uh-oh)\nIn BH qoph was a uvular stop (as in Standard Arabic), and kaph was a velar stop. In MH they are both velar stops (similar to English k)\nThe so-called 'emphatic' consonants (tet, tsadi, and according to some scholars, qoph) were pharyngealized /t/, /s/ and /k/ respectively in BH. In Modern Hebrew, however, the pharyngealization has been dropped-tet is pronouncied exactly the same as tav (similar to English t), and tsadi is pronounced /ts/ (similar to the ts in English cats).\nIn BH, resh was pronounced as a tap (similar to Spanish /r/), but in MH it is a voiced velar fricative (similar to French /r/).\nIn BH, when gimel (English /g/), dalet (English /d/), and tav (English /t/) would be spirantized following a vowel (they would become fricatives instead of stops, i.e. gimel would be pronounced similar to Spanish /g/ in 'lago', dalet would be pronounced similar to English /th/ in 'there', and tav would be pronounced similar to English /th/ in 'thin'). In MH these consonants are pronounced as /g/, /d/, and /t/, regardless of whether they follow a vowel.\n\nMorphosyntax- There are many differences between BH and MH:\nBH had what scholars call the waw-consecutive that would be prefixed to the verb, which was often used to mark a sequentiality in a chain of events. In the narrative portions of the Bible, this is the most common verb form. In MH, however, this form does not exist.\nThe cohortative and jussive that were used in BH similar to 'let/may' constructions in English (i.e. 'may he live') do not exist in MH.\nMH uses constructions with the verb 'to be' plus the prensent tense to denote imperfective aspect. This construction did not exist in BH.\nThe verbal system in BH is generally thought to use aspect instead of tense, i.e. perfect=completed action vs. imperfect=incomplete or ongoing action, compared to MH tense system, i.e. future, past, & present tenses, although this is debatable. Everyone will agree, however, that there are major differences in the verbal systems of BH and MH. \nWord order in BH is generally thought to have been verb-subject-object, i.e. hit the boy the ball, compared to MH subject-verb-object word order (same as English).\n\nOrthography- MH has developed a standardized orthography, that uses the letters yod and vav to denote certain vowels. The orthography of BH, on the other hand, is not standardized, and often does not use yod and vav to mark /i/, /o/, and /u/ vowels.\n\nVocabulary- MH has had to add many new words to its lexicon that  either do not mean the same thing in BH, or did not exist at all. Many of these new words in MH ha
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sure, in that the word "book" is in the bible.  as in "book of ruth"\n\nHebrew language will do wonders for ya.  Ditto greek.  Still a FANTASTIC waste of time, on the whole :D
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I took some classes in Hebrew from a local synogogue years ago (usually they're free) and remember some of what I learned.\n\nActually, the Rabbi who taughtthe class was the grandson of Eli Ben Yehuda the first native speaker of Hebrew.
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What you're talking about, which is gematria, is EXTREMELY subjective.  It would be virtually impossible to determine that based on what you're posing.\n\n1.  You  need to decide on the gematria system: hebrew, english, greek, etc.  \n1.a. because hebrew is the original gematria system, you would transliterate the english sounds into hebrew letters\n1.b. this is difficult because in doing so, you'll find there are multiple sounds in english that could equal multiple sounds in hebrew\n2. Even if you're looking for an answer in one gematria system, you need to set the parameters\n2.a. are you looking for just addition to create your 666?\n2.b. are you looking for all mathematical functions: addition subtraction, multiplication, division to give you the end result of 666\n3. How many generations of math functions are you willing to do, and based on what parameters.\n3.a. in other words, lets say my name -> lobo\n12 + 15 + 2 +15 =44\n4+4=8 \nor 4-4=0\nor 1+2+1+5+2+1+5=17\n1+7=8\nor, holy crap 1-7= -6, I could be 1/3rd of the anti christ, let's not even go for conqueso\n\nsee, numerology is so subjective, you can turn anyone into the messiah or the antichrist.
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No, but I wish you luck. You may try buying some language tapes to help you.
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The best way you can find out what the bible says in "real terms" is to read it in Hebrew. That is the original language  it was written in. I find it useful when reading to have The Exhaustive concorance of the Bible near by.
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Well, in modern day hebrew, it would be bimyutzato (I think).  In the more ancient hebrew, I honestly can't remember...sorry!