CLASSICAL HEBREW TONGUE AND OLD TESTAMENT STUDY
Keywords:
Classical, Hebrew, language, Old Testament, StudyAbstract
The paper investigated the significance of Hebrew tongue to the study of Old Testament. Authors of the ‘Hebrew canon, the law and the Book’ (Old Testament) wrote in a language and culture far removed from our own and their key contractual obligation was to be intelligible for their own time. It requires training on our part to understand them in their own language. It is discovered that by learning Hebrew one learns the Jewish mindset, world view and Hebraic thought patterns. Hebrew is the key to Jewish self-sufficiency; its universality has helped to break down the barrier between the religious and the secular in Jewish locales. It is the best means and method to remove the clothing from the Scripture for apt intelligibility for our time and culture.
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