rob
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My friend, I knew (deceased) a Hebrew Greek scholar in my SDA church, his name Dr Eric Livingstone, who could quote the entuire NT from memory in both English and Greek. We hardly agreed on anything. Later he told me to buy a book called Semantics of Hebrew by James Barr. There was hardly anything in the book I agreed to. I said this is a book you grow up with as a undergraduate, he said yes. I said no wonder we disagree so much.
You are talking to a person who does not agree with many scholars - my experiences are mine alone.
I give you one example" Language - in a language you can have words that are both noun and verb and thus should have the same basic meaning. But scholars disregard this because they don't like following the language rules they translate from.
The same is the idea of polysemy. Hebrew is a broad language, Greek is narrow. So the world today is Greek, and this is a problem.
I like Jeff Benner because I see words have a single basic meaning regardless of its context.
How many scholars know the paleo Hebrew the oldest Hebrew Moses wrote? The scholarship is less than 50 years old. So you will clash with scholars who regard such things as rubbish. Even today Jewish scholars say Solomons palace never existed !
Even Jews today write Hellenistic Hebrew, not the Ancient Hebrew Moses knew.
Narrow is the way the Bible says and few find it. Shalom
