[Steven Avery]

Hi Folks,

I told you above about a paper at SBL. If you do not know, that is the Society of Biblical Literature. Are they up to your standards and requirements ? That is for you to decide. You can probably simply put the name "Ken Penner" (with an add-on like SBL, Hebrew, Bible, etc) into Google and find some solid information. While you are at it you might want to read Alan Millard on literacy at the time of Jesus, but that is auxiliary to our discussion. If that is not enough for you, ask respectfully and I will be happy to dig up some urls.

Your hositility is getting a bit tiring and off-putting. I share some solid, significant, new information on the topics you raise and now you try to accuse me this way and that.

My one fluent langauge is English, never claimed otherwise anywhere at any time. Went to Hebrew school as a child and a bit of refresher reading here and there. I try to learn to ask good questions, when necessary, which on the languages is rather rare these days.

As I tried to tell you, "orthodox scholarship" has had a bit of a paradigm shift the last years on the Hebrew question. It actually began more-or-less back with the DSS discovery (Qumran) of letters in Hebrew on non-religious matters, especially Bar Kochba on mundane and military matters. Professor Lawrence Schiffman speaks on that at times. However Ken Penner brought the issue to the fore by reexamining the whole NT question of Hebrew and Aramaic and the translation and meaning and usage of Hebraisti (compared to Chaldee and Syriac) and concluding quite strongly that the New Testament usage is the Hebrew language, which really should not be too much of a surprise.

You are apparently a bit out-of-date. You need to catch up. Start with the King James Bible.

(Oh, in this case, Hebrew, the Geneva will probably be right, as well.)

Shalom,
Steven Avery