(06-10-2019, 08:05 PM)searchinmyroots Wrote:(06-10-2019, 07:56 PM)nili Wrote:(06-10-2019, 04:08 PM)searchinmyroots Wrote: ... We do not need an interpretation, because we have the original Hebrew it was written in.
Our oldest textual witnesses come from the DSS and date to, roughly, the second century B.C.E. Meanwhile, the oldest Masoretic text dates to some nine centuries later.
So, no, we do not have the "original Hebrew."
Nili,
What I am referring to is that the Hebrew bible is written in Hebrew, not an interpretation of it.
And yet scholars often resort to cognate studies to understand what the text means; elsewhere they simply note: "Hebrew meaning uncertain."
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