Bible
The Bible consists of certain sacred scriptures of Judaism (Old Testament) and Christianity (New Testament). A major difference is that the Christian Bible includes both the Old and the New Testaments, while the Jewish or Hebrew Bible excludes the New Testament. There are numerous controversies regarding the texts, exact contents, and their interpretations. It is considered politically correct to criticize or satirize Christianity, including the Bible, but it is considered politically incorrect to criticize or satirize Judaism, including later religious texts such as the Talmud, despite building on the Hebrew Bible.
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The Jewish version of the Bible, the "Tanakh", includes the books common to both the Christian and Jewish biblical canons.
The Christian version of the Bible is often called the Holy Bible, Scriptures, or Word of God. It divides the books of the Bible into two parts: the books of the Old Testament primarily sourced from the Tanakh (with some variations), and the 27 books of the New Testament containing books originally written primarily in Greek. Some versions of the Christian Bible have a separate Apocrypha section for the books not considered canonical by the publisher. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canons contain books not found in the Tanakh, but that are found in the Greek Septuagint, the oldest of several ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek.
The Bible, or some portion of it, had been translated into more than 2,300 languages or dialects as of 2003.
The claim of an original Hebrew text
Quoting from “The Holy Name and the Whys and Wherefores” by Adam de Witt:
Well the basic fact is this; that what everyone calls the Original Hebrew text, is the Masoretic Text (MT). This MT is what folks refer to when they say, the “original text”.
Of course, things are not made easy for Saksons when one had scholars like James Strong making a Bible 'helpmate' (concordance) for the MT text and that he then makes the following claim in his foreword, “Dictionaries of the Hebrew and Greek Words of the original . . . ” That is quite a statement and from the outset from such a scholar, which then shapes the minds of readers that he is using an original Hebrew text, when in truth he is not using an original text at all. The foreword of his helpmate tells us that he used “...the Holy Scriptures as they exist in the three most important forms known to British and American readers and scholars, namely, the partly Hebrew and partly Greek original text, and the “Authorized” and “Revised” English Versions.”
. . . We also know that the “original Hebrew” text of the Authorized and Revised was the MT or the Masoretic Text, and because Stongs says it's original, everyone says so too . . .
By and large, the Christian Bibles up until the Protestant reformation used the Septuagint, but the Protestants like all movements were warned by Jesus, to beware of the teachings of the Jews, yet they nevertheless opted to use the Jewish Canon, the Tanakh via the text made by a Jewish sect called the Masoretes.
Unfortunately, The Protestants accepted a tradition being the idea that a Jewish sect called the Masorites were the keepers of the erstwhile (original) Hebrew Old Testament. This was not a hard mistake to make as the Catholic Church had the tradition long in place that the Jews were Hebrews, and that these 'Jews' presumably spoke Hebrew . . .
The MT [Masoretic Text] was copied, edited and distributed by the Jewish Masoretes between the seventh and tenth year-hundreds (centuries) . . . AFTER CHRIST!
It is this text that everyone, for spellbound reasons, calls the “Original Hebrew”. Yet it has been EDITED by Jews, of the usurper-line-of-Ashkenaz, over and over again. Now how on earth can anyone call this original?
Certainly Jesus nor the Apostles EVER used it, and even if it were around at their time, they would never have used it as it was written by liars, cheats, Identity Thieves, and those Jesus said they fordo (destroy) the word of God with their traditions, their ways, their reasoning...their editing. ‘Editing’ means to rewrite something to suit the one doing the changing. So how reliable is that when it comes from editing Antichrists?!?! The MT is thus a rag. (I will add at the end of account some good study matter on this issue.)
. . . The MT [Masoretic Text] is called the original Hebrew Bible but is neither Christian, Israelite, original, Hebrew, or used by the Son of God, nor written by Moses or quoted by the Apostles. It is a fraud, a Jewish fable.
It was written 1000 years AFTER Jesus, it was written by Christ hating and Christian hating heathens, it is written in an Assyrian tongue with and Assyrian alphabet, by Rabbis of a mixed blood background . . . the very cult of gangsters Jesus loathed and of whom Titus said that their mouths must be stopped for they undermine whole nations . . . [Titus 1].
See also
External links
Complete Israelite Bibles
Israelite Old Testaments
- Charles Thomson's English Translation of the Greek Septuagint (LXX) Bible
- Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton's English Translation of the Greek Septuagint Bible (Volume I and Volume II)
Israelite New Testaments
Bible Commentaries
- The American Institute of Theology Bible Course
- The American Institute of Theology Bible Course on BlogTalkRadio
- The Explanation of the Four Gospels by Archbishop Averky Tauchev
