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Jots and Tittles

Amen! I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the Law . . . (Matthew 5:18) What are jots and tittles? One thing they are is evidence that Yeshua, the Jesus of history, and his followers were very familiar with the Hebrew language. However, to understand this we have to trace the journey of the Hebrews words of Yeshua into the Greek language of the ancient manuscripts of the New Testament and then into the English translations we read today. In order to help you follow that journey I will use English transliterations of Greek and Hebrew words, which means I will replace their letters with English letters that are their equivalents. By the way, “Yeshua” is an English transliteration of the Hebrew word that is his name. If we use a Greek text of Matthew 5:18, the Greek word translators read for “ jot ” is “ iota .” Iota is the name of a Greek letter. It is usually transliterated by the English “ i .” Ho...

Yeshua and the Hebrew Language

In our discussion about the Y Team Bible Study Method we created our first version of Yeshua’s Linguistic Profile . One of the cultural factors we learned about Yeshua is that he read and spoke Hebrew. Today we are going to examine one of the sources of that information. It is found in Luke 4:16-17: So he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Shabbat and stood up to read. And he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had unrolled the scroll, he found the place where it was written . . . Between late 1946 and early 1947 the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in Qumran Cave 1 , by a group of three Ta'amireh shepherds, near the Ein Feshka spring off the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. One of those scrolls is the Great Isaiah Scroll . It is the oldest complete copy of the Book of Isaiah , being approximately 1000 years older than the oldest Hebrew manuscripts known before the discovery....

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