Counterfeit Hebrew
Someone tagged me on this video which I frankly find horrible but I thought I might as well post it alongside my response. I could not be bothered countering everything this guy says because he is a jerk.
Counterfeit Hebrew: Wednesday Night Bible Studies Season 5 – Episode I
My response:
He might well be funny but he is misleading people. By the year 1000 AD, the English language consisted of approximately 40 000 words. Nowadays, the number has grown to more than 500,000. You would expect proto-semetic to have less words not more words than Greek which was the language of a vast Empire. Moreover, the Hebrew nation had been exiled,the Northern tribes were completely assimilated and that is hardly good for continuity of language etc. Biblicists know that the Septuagint (LXX) differs from the MSS (as does the OG Theodotion) because they were working from different Hebrew Vorlage. The fact that we have transnational differences is proof that we are not dealing with a fabricated monolithic whole. Moreover, colloquialisms and dialect can be detected (See Rensburg) differentiating Northern Israeli Hebrew from Judean Hebrew which is different from Mishnaic (Talmudic or Rabbinical) Hebrew. There is a whole process of linguistic development that can be traced. The word rendered as BRANCH in Zech 6:12 MSS with the LXX translating the Hebrew ṣe·maḥ (צֶ֤מַח) as anatole (ἀνατολὴ). The idea of the branch probably comes from the constellation of Virgio (a virgin will conceive) which had a palm branch in her right hand and the spica, or ear of wheat in her left. This probably explains why the LXX chose anatole a word related to rising/sunrise (in the east) probably to do with the sun in Virgio and reflected in the Pesher of Zech 6:12 which uses the word denḥā’ which indicates the rising of the sun or stars. The Hebrew ṣe·maḥ has the nom. means growth,shoot, bud has an Aramaic and a Phoenician root with the same meaning. In fact Phoen.ṣmḥ , means sprout, offshoot,posterity akin to the Syriac ṣemaḥ -shine forth, ṣemaḥā, shining,sprout. So you see that the ideas of shine,sprout,branch demonstrate semantic convergence. The same word is used in Jeremiah 23:5 “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch/sprout, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth”. Rendered in the LXX (Greek transliterated): anasteso (raise up) to dauid (David) anatolen (rising) dikaian (righteousness). Notice the poetic play anasteso/anatolen the Hebrew of Zech 6:12 also contains such a play but it is much more elegant: šə·mōw (whose name is) ṣe·maḥ (the branch). A parallel to Jer 23:5 and 33:15 is found in the Phoenician inscription from Cyprus (KAI 43:11) from 3 BC to Ptolemy II Philadelpeus as ṣe·maḥ ṣe·deq the righteous (legitimate?) shoot. That is about the same time as the LXX Greek translation was made. As to the nonsense about the towel or cloth (not underpants) in the Greek λέντιον (lention) and girding διέζωσεν (diezOsen) means exactly what it says as the Greek Lexicons demonstrate.
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=le/ntion
He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded (John 13:4,5).
Conclusion: The man is an idiot and a serpent. Why do you think Christianity is under relentless attack? Why? Because Christianity is by its very nature socially conservative. It believes in family, tradition, the nation state, freewill, natural law and sovereignty and morality which is opposed by the globalists and technocrats. There is no halfway house here. What did Jesus say? “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matt 6:24). So make up your mind who you serve.
The Jews HATE Christianity. That should tell you everything you need to know.
PS. And by the way there are roughly 5,394 total unique words in the Greek New Testament. So the subset of words used in the Bible is much smaller than than those employed in the Greek language.
http://renewingtruth.com/2017/01/teach-yourself-biblical-greek-memorize-the-vocabulary-of-the-greek-new-testament/