The Journeyman Project: Blog » hebrew http://www.journeymanproject.org Dispatches from the Life of Patrick Fowler: Christianity Explored Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:56:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.journeymanproject.org http://www.journeymanproject.org/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon.ico The Journeyman Project: Blog You might know Biblical Hebrew and Greek if… http://www.journeymanproject.org/church/you-might-know-biblical-hebrew-and-greek-if/ http://www.journeymanproject.org/church/you-might-know-biblical-hebrew-and-greek-if/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:38:00 +0000 admin http://www.journeymanproject.org/church/you-might-know-biblical-hebrew-and-greek-if/ If you had grown up in the Puritan colony of Boston during the days it was a British colony, you would have entered Grammar school between age six and eight, already having learned to read and write English. Grammar school would have added three languages to your skillset in seven years: Latin, Biblical Hebrew, and Biblical (Koine) Greek.

By the time you went to ‘college’ at FOURTEEN or SIXTEEN, you would be proficient in these languages…why? Because those were the languages that the important books were written in! You needed to be able to interact with the scholars of the past and present, much like I would have to learn German and French to pursue a Ph.D. today.

More importantly, you were taught skills to teach yourself, rather than loaded with information to forget later. The same education prepared you to apprentice as a doctor, pastor, or lawyer. If you could think, then you would succeed.

This is not the philosophy of education I feel that I grew up under, how about you?

]]> http://www.journeymanproject.org/church/you-might-know-biblical-hebrew-and-greek-if/feed/ 0 The Misuse of the Bible: This will make you laugh or cry! http://www.journeymanproject.org/bible-study/the-misuse-of-the-bible-this-will-make-you-laugh-or-cry/ http://www.journeymanproject.org/bible-study/the-misuse-of-the-bible-this-will-make-you-laugh-or-cry/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:38:15 +0000 admin http://www.journeymanproject.org/?p=373 So many people think that getting a tattoo in a foreign language is cool, and many who try take their phrases from the sacred words of Scripture.

This is not unlike people who know enough Hebrew or Greek to use Strong's Concordance, or sound out the words of a phrase Jesus spoke and conclude that the sound of the Greek "Obama" points us toward the antichrist.

Tip for the world: if you don't know the language, don't use the language!!!

There's a lot more too it than the meaning of individual words, and the picture above illustrates. This poor guy tried to copy the VERY popular phrase, I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine...and ended up with a broken phrase that suggests incest with his father. Even in it's proper form, this phrase speaks of a male lover: it can only truly be taken as a female's statement.

Think this is just a fluke?
BadHebrew.com posts another tattoo every couples of days!
I check back for a good laugh all the time.

And the poor use of language for 'spiritual reasons' is more common that its' misuse on tattoos.

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