How I’m Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew

Over the past year and a half, I’ve been learning to read Biblical Hebrew. I should say that I don’t think anyone has to learn the original languages to benefit from the Scriptures — nearly everyone in the world now has the Bible available in his or her own language, either the whole Bible or [...]

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Did Biblical Hebrew Verb States Reflect the Long Lifetimes of Early Humans?

I’ve been intrigued by Biblical Hebrew’s lack of verb tenses (past, present, future) and what it might have to say about the psychology of the people who originally spoke it. Considering the Bible account, it seems likely that Hebrew or something like it was the original human language. According to one way of thinking, the worshipers of [...]

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New Translation of Holman Bible Increases Use of Yahweh in Its Text

I was impressed recently to see the ad shown to the right from Biblical Archaeology Review for May/June of 2010. In an age where most churchgoers effectively don’t even know the name of the God they profess to worship, it is impressive that translators would have the courage to include the name of the Bible’s divine [...]

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Hebrew Inscription Supports Much Earlier Date for Biblical Hebrew

An inscription on a pottery fragment recently deciphered at the University of Haifa in Israel shows that Hebrew was in use during the 10th century BCE, much earlier than generally acknowledged by mainstream scholars. An announcement from the University of Haifa (see “Most ancient Hebrew inscription deciphered“) says the inscription appears on a pottery shard [...]

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‘Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew’ great for beginners

I’m having great success using Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew, by Ethelyn Simon and Joseph Anderson. The book provides an easy step-by-step process for learning to read and write the Hebrew alphabet. Highly recommended. I’m using it in conjunction with my first reading of the Hebrew scriptures in the original language. ARK — 29 Oct. [...]

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‘Origin of Speeches’ says Edenic language is programmed in our brains

I recently finished reading The Origin of Speeches: Intelligent Design in Language, a fascinating book by Edenics scholar Isaac E. Mozeson. Edenics is a linguistics project undertaken to study the original human mother tongue called Edenic, the language given to Adam in the garden of Eden. Mozeson is the leader of a group of scholars [...]

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Which came first: Hebrew or Proto-Canaanite?

As I understand it, mainstream scholarship contends that the Hebrew alphabet descended from Phoenician, which descended from a script known as Proto-Canaanite (see the Wikipedia entry for that). Isaac E. Mozeson in The Origin of Speeches: Intelligent Design in Language argues that the Hebrew alphabet predates and is actually the source for the others. Sometimes [...]

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Hebrew lessons — online video

Here is a set of beginning Hebrew lessons on video from B’nai Or in Pueblo, Colorado. ARK — 26 February 2009

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