The Bible was written in THESE languages

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In this short video I talk about the three languages the Bible was originally written in, if we include both the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament. I didn't include the Apocrypha.

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Front page image of Israel Ha-Yom newspaper: fair use intended.

[theantimatter]

great video, hours of info about biblical languages - and it's still going!

[vadimkugushev]

That's why what? THAT'S WHY WHAT? WE NEED ANSWERS

[sabikikasuko]

Aramaic speakers writing in Greek is the epic version of me writing my fics in English despite being native Spanish to reach a much wider audience 🤣

[hadriel]

There's also the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) that was very common as the Jewish diaspora knew Greek

[gnatdagnat]

Shorts fit Langfocus really well I think. Not that I'd like to see the end of full length videos; I'll still always watch and love those.

[jakehempel]

Id like to see a biblical hebrew vs modern hebrew video or koine greek vs modern day greek. Love your vids. Prayers!

[mshaqed]

As a native Hebrew speaker, It's really not that hard getting used to biblical Hebrew, as it's really quite similar, and you also have the added benefit of learning a really beautiful version of the language. I can even (well, sort of) read the Aramaic parts of the Tanakh and understand what's happening there, although it's a really annoying and painstakingly long task.

Honestly, if you want to read the Tanakh in all of it's glory, you should really choose Hebrew, it's basically the absolute best written version of the language, and reading it in other languages really negates the beauty of the text.

Oh, and I almost forgot, but there's also a pretty famous translation of the Miqra to ancient Greek known as " the translation of the seventy" or "Septuagint". The interesting part about this translation is that it's an earlier version of the Tanakh, so it can sometimes explain weird passages (I hope that's the translation for "פסוק") that lack context in the more common version of the Tanakh we all know and love.

[benitocamelo]

Great video! I love how you condensed a lot of info in just one short

[karapetrov-ic]

The Roman catholic church and the Orthodox Church use the Septuagint as the Old Testament traditionally. The Septuagint is written in Greek as well.

[vanmars]

Important note: apart from the biblical texts we have also the Jewish historian Josephus from the 1st century who also choose to write in Greek. " He recorded the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70 AD), including the siege of Masada. His most important works were The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. These works provide valuable insight into first century Judaism and the background of Early Christianity. Josephus's works are the chief source next to the Bible for the history and antiquity of ancient Palestine, and provide a significant and independent extra-Biblical account of such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, John the Baptist, James the Just, and possibly Jesus of Nazareth." Wikimedia

[mattkuhn]

If you include the deuterocanonical books (i.e. the ones that are in the Catholic bible which Martin Luther cut out of the Protestant bible), most of those were either originally written in Koine Greek as well, or we no longer have any extant Hebrew versions - there is some debate as to whether they were originally written in Hebrew or not.

[isabelreinhold]

When I was little! I thought the Bible was written in Spanish!

[dlevi]

Only Paul can manage to convey this amount of information in 1 minute. And in a continuous loop 😁

[Simon-opnn]

The old testament's language (biblical Hebrew) is originally called "the sacred language" (or לשון הקודש).

[duckduckbro]

Topic suggestions:
Biblical Hebrew vs Modern Hebrew
Biblical Aramaic vs Modern Syriac
Koine Greek vs Modern Standard Greek
Love your videos!

[jackwooten]

If you want to get even more specific, the extra-Biblical sources of the Talmud and Midrashim were also in Hebrew, but moreso Aramaic; Jewish Aramaic. And there was a particular dialect of Jewish Aramaic spoken in Galilee in the first century called “Galilean Aramaic” which was the tongue of Jesus Christ.

[faisalalan]

As a Muslim, I'd like to thank you for sharing this video!

[matthewhunter]

Fun fact: the Bible, both new and Old Testament, are translated into 1, 617 languages altogether

[giannifois]

Fun fact: ancient greek people, from the invention of their alphabet, in the 15th century b.C., to the death of Alexander the Great, wrote their texts with only capital letters, without writing accents nor spirits, without writing punctation marks (dots, commas, question/exclamation marks etc.) and without spaces between words, they were all attached. The non-capital letters were the last thing which came to the greeks, indeed also latin people in the roman empire wrote everything with capital letters.

[lalawagner]

Would love to hear more about different bible translations and if they match the original