The Origins of Hebrew 

@@theexile1155 you are not predestined ('Ezekiel' 18:20-32/rom. 6:16), the one who has an ear to hear let that one hear ('Mark' 4:9). HalleluYAH yes, not Hallelu-'Jesus'.

God created the universe in the divine Hebrew language. When all the numerical values of Hebrew names of the elements/planets/etc are graphed against their properties - it consistently produces a straight line. By Prof Haim Shore. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-noW-yHjaMVY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QvKlP7hEo-Q.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VYlKkIoavnA.html (hidden codes in the books of moses) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AB1_dJpN-9s.html (hidden codes in the books of moses)

I wonder if the ancient Israelites would’ve felt quite so grateful to the Canaanites.

Isaac was born 2000BC + about 191 yrs later Jacob moves to Egypt + 430 years to the Law (i.e. Pentateuch) so Moses wrote the law in approx. 1379/80 BC - if anything he was educated in Egypt and spent 40 years with the Midianites. The Papyrus Harris, dated to 1150BC (housed at the British Museum) was written in Egyptian - the style is not unlike Arabic - Just sayin' ! So Moses must have written in something similar - although I do remember a silver scroll that was found and the writing is paleo Hebrew dated to about 600BC (although probably much older, one cannot date a stable element with any accuracy - it contains verses from the book of Numbers) I suppose no one will ever know !!!

@Infinite Flow You do know that Noah lived in Ur (Mesopotamia) right ? - that's where they found the stele

The more things change the more they stay the same.

"The aphabet again? When are we going to write something important in this class?"

Years ago, I came across an account of a deciphered tablet from this area whose subject matter was a student writing home for more money.

...had he succeeded ,then we would need a chart and a horse to carry a novel...and yo had to be noble for being allowed to read...

If you read the bible, it seems those who didn‘t cut it as scribes for economic transactions and court records ended up writing the fiction...

Good idea but i think it would delude the meaning of the video

@@curtiswilson859 nope, almost a million people speak it to this day in their day-to-day life. Look up Maaloula, Qaraqosh, Alqosh, or Södertälje

@@kevinwahl5610 very nice, thanks for the clarification! I’d love an episode or two on this channel devoted to dead or dying languages and their relationship to liturgies that help keep them alive so long.

@@curtiswilson859 No. Some dialects of Aramaic (for instance, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Jewish Palestinian Aramaic) are only liturgical and preserved in writing (e.g., the Talmud; certain prayers), but some are still spoken languages today - Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is one.

@@curtiswilson859 Also in southern Turkey is spoken the central mountain vernacular of Aramaic the Toroyo language while liturgical Syriac is used in the church and spoken by a few scholars, monks, priests etc

I think the change could be of which syllables is stressed, instead of the amount of syllables

Regional accents and things. There are phrases that now have the opposite meaning they used to. Look in to "positive anymore". I know a few people who use it, and it is regional - but still sounds very strange to me. Changes or differences like that are common.

Isn't it said like iz-rah-eh-lite?

@@brujo_millonario If one normally pronounces “Israel” as “Iz-rah-el”, yes. But the typical English language speaker normally pronounces it “Iz-ree-uhl”, so the “ite” adds an additional syllable to that pronunciation.

I hear four syllables...

Cool, Canaanite Akkadograms !!

That makes perfect sense, like the widespread use of Sinitic characters across East Asia. The use of a character doesn't make a word or a text Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. You have to dig deeper and look at the text as a whole to figure out which it is.

Exactly. It is seems counterintutive for many westerners, myself included, because we are not used to considering logograms, and the many peculiarities that languages that regularly use logograms have. It is worth mentioning here, because he skipped over it in the video, that Akkadian uses a lot of logograms in addition to its syllabic signs. In fact many signs can act both as logograms and as syllabograms depending on the context (which can be hard to figure out). The hittite language is very famous for doing this kind of thing too. The hittites adapted their cuneiform writing system from the akkadian one, which is in turn adapted from sumerian. In Akkadian it is almost always assumed that a literate person is literate in both sumerian and akkadian, and as such that it is perfectly fine to substitute a sumerian word in for an akkadian one, or even to create a rebus of sumerian and akkadian words. In hittite it is in turn assumed that the scribe will be literate in all three of sumerian, akkadian and hittite which means that scribes can go ham and create a mixture of all three languages in writing. It makes for a famously very difficult script to read. It strikes me that this may well be the case for a correspondence apparently written in akkadian, but exchanged between an egyptian speaker and a caananite speaker. They may well have had all sorts of common implied rules and shorthands that we cannot know about today unless more documentation of ancient caaninte comes to light.

Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectcis will guide you

That’s really interesting! That reminds me of how modern Japanese incorporated Chinese characters in writing, but using their native grammar & adding particles/markers/verb endings to accomplish this

Alef is definitely not bull though. I wonder how that got so far off.

Hebrew letters are also numbers

@@robertrude3573 not entirely. They can be used as numbers, but they aren't "numbers". Hebrew speakers don't say "I have yud bet apples"... At least not in daily life. But they are used as date and day markers (Yom - day - alef, or kaf vav of kislev).

@@GaviLazan in the Bible Aleph IS a bull. Also, the word le'aleph (to train an animal) comes from the same root. he.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A3

@@EladLerner I guess you're right, totally forgot about "שגר אלפיך" but even in the Bible the word שור is much more common. That wikitionary link seems to rely on the malbim's perush saying that that word meant specifically "bulls trained to plow". Very interesting.

I would be surprised to find Mormons playing a drinking game 🤣

@@sargecad3t They wrote "_former_" Mormons. :D

I know there's some real questionable claims in Mormonism but there's a theory that Phoenicians may have once explored the Americas, might have influenced some cultures and the Phoenician language is mostly identical with Hebrew but there's no evidence any natives spoke the language.

@@Aj-zr8dz instead of “theory”, I prefer “hypothesis” because it’s a much better way to talk about the scientific method we use to gain knowledge...there are sorts of hypothesis like that, but those are just unjustified speculations. In fact, I’ve seen everything from ancient Egyptians to Irish monks to the Chinese visiting the Americas pre Columbus. But that’s not how academics work and a person needs evidence to back it up. For example, we know that the Norse Vikings visited the Americas; not because of the sagas, but because we have archeologically found a community in Newfoundland at L’Anse aux Meadows. It’s there that they found the footings of structures that matched with Viking homes, rivets used in Viking boats, and slag from the production of iron...which, is one reason we know the Book of Mormon to be full of crap. There are stories of great armies with swords and chariots...yet, there would be massive slag heaps found somewhere in the Americas for that to be true. It’s why the Book of Mormon is not taught at manor university as a historical record. Things suck as genetics, archeology, metallurgy, linguistics, and agriculture all disprove the BoM to be fiction and is why it can be seen as nothing but fiction. I left years and years ago, but if anyone really wants to get into the weeds, the CES Letter is a great place to start...unless if you’re a Mormon apologists. Then more power to you. You just have ignore soooooooooo much. So could the Phoenicians found themselves in the Americas...maybe...but until theirs better evidence, I don’t buy it.

@@losttribe3001 I guess I was using the word "theory" loosely as indeed it was speculation without hard evidence. I've dealt with Mormons, know the history well, know all about shady joe Smith, enjoyed the south park episode etc I do think it's very possible the Phoenicians or a related group might have reached the Americas and might have spread the cults of human sacrifice but this is all speculation.

In the Greek version of the Old Testament, Sam (Shem) have a son called Aram . In the Old testament the children of Sam ( Shem ) are : 1- Elam, 2- Asshur, 3- Arphaxad, 4- Lud, and 5- Aram The Classical Arabic name for the region is بلاد اَلشَّأم ("The land of Shem") eldest son of Noah. The name of بلاد اَلشَّأم in the ancient world was never called the land of Aram. In Assyrian annals it was called the land of Hittites, and earlier it was called The Land of Amorites. The only reference mentioned as the Land of Aram was in the Old Testament around 500 BC and after the fall of the Assyrian Empire. The Greek replaced the name of Aram with Suria, simply because by the time the Old Testament translation to Greek was completed, the Romans were ruling بلاد اَلشَّأم, and the Romans had established a province called Suria. The ancient Arameans never labeled themselves as Surians . Another interesting think is that Armenians had a king called Aram, and the Greeks called him Aram too. Despite that, they continues to call land of Aram as Suria. All Arameans have been Assyrianized, hence the Greeks called them Surians which is in English short for Assyrians الآشوريين Here are Greek and Roman historians equating the term Suria, Syria/Syrian with Assyria/Assyrian. Arabic and Hebrew languages are derived from Aramaic. It is said that 3500 years ago, Abraham spoke Aramaic but Ishmael spoke the Arabic.

Isn't Hebrew older than Aramaic, and some scholars argue was the original pre Babel language, or is that Talmudic Rabbinical propaganda?

I think this video was a very poor introduction to a very complicated subject that is made even more complicated by anachronistic terminology. "Paleo-Hebrew" is just the Canaanite/Phoenician script adn the "square-script" is called Ashurit ("Assyrian") because they adopted it from Aramaic around the time of the exile. If you point to all the foreign influences on the Hebrew language (like there is for ANY language) then things become more clear. It's only when these details are ignored that things make no sense.

Largely agreed, there were a lot of good nuggets of info, but in structure I was confused

And then some ! i watched this video because Stan Tenen calls it a "construction language" , and i heard nothing about that ! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qcIQBrdqBL8.html

Proclaiming the Bible as history was his greatest leap of faith to begin with 😂 By the way that scripture looked eerily similar to linear writing

@@epimetheus9053 It's funny because there's no problem with people suggesting that, for example, the Phoenician script influenced the Greek alphabet, but because Hebrew is supposed to be a "holy language/script" so much of the research on the subject is tangled in belief.

"tsar feodore IV": perhap cause a woman ? ( Alexandria the great )a christian who studied hebrew .

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tqOi8JViVes.html

Thank you for the kind words!

@@ReligionForBreakfast Hebrew is a recent language, like all Semitic. The Hamito branch is the origin/daddy!

@@ReligionForBreakfast Thank/Praise Yah. What is called "Phoenician Hebrew" (because of the area) according to Historians is the oldest language on earth though.

Why do you europeans lie and distort simple truths! Hebrew is a North East African language point blank! That is so clear! The middle east huh! G.O.politics! So where is the middle west? The middle north and the middle south? You creat these terms to confuse the masses, Israel is a north east African country! The children of Israel are north east African people, and Hebrew is a north east African Language Facts!

@@benlinley1522 proof?

Mayan, Yucatec, nahuatl and other languages in mesoamerica

@@ericktellez7632 Some people still speak those languages - there is an active effort to revitalize Nawat in El Salvador, for instance. The descendents of these ancient peoples are still here, living, today. Take care not to insinuate they're all dead or relics of the past.

It has an insane amount of history that will never be explored because of the political and religious problems surrounding the area.

@Ai7A Because there are thousands upon thousands of Hebrew manuscripts, books, scrolls, cave carvings, tombs, place names, prayers, etc written in Hebrew, one of which is the most popular book in human history: The Bible. Hebrew never really died out either. The language was maintained as a religious language and was used in (and still is) synagogues. If you go to any Orthodox/Conservative service the vast majority of the service is in Hebrew, and Jewish prayers are almost exclusively said in Hebrew.

@LEO&LAMB Lol are you stupid?Hebrew never actually died...

אני לא יהודי, אבל אני אוהב עברית ❤️

@LEO&LAMBAdam and Eve is a fictional story so it doesn’t matter what language it says they spoke.

@LEO&LAMB Hebrew spoken 3.335 years ago is closer to modern Hebrew than Shakespeare's English is from modern English. That's why I understand your question, from an English speaking perspective.

I remember cursive Hebrew in school. What a nightmare... Lol Honestly, I believe that cursive writing in any language was used simply to save time writing.

Indeed. In rabbinic judaism this topic is discussed as "on which alphabet were the tablets written?". There were different opinions on the subject on the Talmud. An interesting thing is that judaic exegesis claims that the tablets were engraved trough all the material, and the rounded letters had a central piece of stone floating as a miracle. But ... in modern hebrew script these rounded letters are for example samech, while in proto hebrew the rounded ones were other letters.

To associate God's law & commandments given to Moses had to have been written in writing system of Egyptians kings suggest you don't comprehend how much more superior God was, & is, to the Egyptians & all other kingdoms that has ever existed- till this day. God nor Moses didn't think so highly of the Egyptians ways & when He called them out of bondage He's intent was to have a peculiar people unto Himself, not a people to mimic the very people who enslaved them.

Lewis may be going down a strong opinion that might not work, unless the G-d of Moses, I Am altered all the minds ofl the assembled masses of recently liberated Israel to understand the holy writings of Hebrew, or at least the Levites. That would go against the notion of free will on a societal scale....which would have kept the Israelites from descending into civil war just a few weeks later or fashioning the golden calf. Lewis makes a point which is encapsulated in the golden calf. An attempt by the newly liberated children of Jacob to revert to Egyptian unholy ways. Instead they are instructed by Moses to stick only with the word of G-d, written himself with his mighty hand. No more paraded idols. So back to the decameron. If it was written by I Am, then it would need to make sense to The People and to Moses himself. Did the people hold to the written language of Jacob while in bandage? Was there one, as tradition holds that Moses wrote the 5 books from his intimate conversations with I Am. So did Moses learn the written language of I Am before he climbed the mount. Does I Am need a written language. In his life he would have been trained in the palace language of Pharoh. After he killed the architect and fled to Midian....did he pick up the commercial written language of the Midian shepards before he returned to Egypt to confront Pharoh? In either case, if the tablets are to be read by The People or at least by the Levite elders....it would have to be in a symbol language they already understood. Since Mises broke the tablets of I Am, then he had to transcribe them as replacements. Would Moses have transcribed them in a language know to his people, in an inspired symbolic writing of heaven or in a language of Midian? Interesting questions. Not important to adherence, piety or salvation,...but interesting musings.

@@lewisb3483 maybe you could try using words that aren't as combative. You don't know how the tablets were written. And at what point did God throw into a conversation that he wasn't fond of Egyptians? It's an opinion same as the person commenting.

Not to mention that the Laws are dictated twice (Ex. 30 and Ex. 34) since Moses broke the first set when seeing the Golden calf and went back to the mountains and... the two sets of Laws are different!! So did JHVH have writing difficulties, or short-term memory problems?

Yes. I believe it too.

English is obviously indirectly derived from Hebrew

I thought the Korean characters were supposed to be designed to represent the shape that the mouth forms when making those sounds?

There are two really nice documentaries, although they are in Spanish, about the Ifa religion and Yoruba traditions inherited in Cuba, they're called Ikú Lobi Ocha (Roughly translates to Death births the Saint) and Aña, la Magia del Tambor (Aña is the religious drums, Batas, the magic of the drum). Ikú Lobi Ocha also speaks about the Palo Mayombe religion we inherited from Congo. There's also one called Los Misterios del Vudú, I'm not particularly fond of how some of the information is presented but they do show different traditions and rituals in Africa and throughout the diaspora.

Intriguingly, though, the Akkadian and Ugaritic he mentions read left-to-right.

I agree, and the author of the video alluded to it when he spoke of degrees of literacy. This is certainly true for ancient Akkadian written in cuneiform (or Sumerian, for that matter). The reality is that while in any given period the Akkadian (or Sumerian) written may have a full inventory of 600+ signs, when one reads the texts, the sign inventory is really made up of under a hundred. The rest were esoteric signs used by scribes trying to show off when writing literature or whatever (that last part I made up, but I am pretty sure that that's true for some periods). And on a final note re alphabets and their one-grapheme-per-phoneme (more or less) system vs. other systems, I am not sure that the former is necessarily easier than the latter. I know virtually nothing about Chinese, but it has a huge (as I understand it) sign inventory. But literacy in China is pretty high right now despite this. On the surface, it seems logical to think that with fewer signs (or letters or glyphs or graphemes or whatever), it should be easier to read. But the reality suggests that there's a lot more at play.

My grandparents are considered uneducated because of no schooling past 3rd grade. Yet they could read the newspaper, do their housekeeping math and build thriving businesses. One g father owned a shoe factory the other a sales business where he had basic conversation skills in 7 languages to talk to customers. People usually know a lot more than others give them credit for. (Yes, ending with a preposition. That's the language now!)

@@cycy2425 The whole 'rule' about not ending with a preposition is an example of applying Latin rules to a *Germanic* language (English) and is generally considered irrelevant as German has prepositions that are actually separate components of verbs (schlussen *an*, anschlussen, etc.)

There are some documentaries of illiteracy in Kentucky that made me re-evaluate how common it is for people to learn to read

free palestine

@@ts-wo6pp from what

@@eit2000 the colonial project known as israel

@@ts-wo6pp cry arab

@@ts-wo6pp Talk to your leadership.

@@Nah_Bohdi Baa

Is it available somewhere on the Internet?

@@webbess1 I'm sure it is pbs.org

@@webbess1 I am not sure. There take was slightly different in as they were talking about the archaeology of finding a sorta of Rosetta stone that should the early Hebrew/Cainite alphabet and their translation in hieroglyphics. They then should how the letters evolved from the ancient Hebrew/Cainite into our current alphabet.

Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectics will guide you

I wonder about it all the time.

FASCINATING!!!

Alef became "Alpha" in Greek then "A" in Latin

ox, house, camel, door, window lol write your name in pictures

It actually was originally meant to mean ship. The triangle represents the body of the ship and the vertical line that cuts through it represents the sails.

@@David-ex6hv yes as they were sea fairing people

The A is of axin,oxin one the helps with axels pulling a cart..farmers..with a ploy

@ABRAHAM i thought it was from celtic mixed with hebrew Arabic and a tiny bit if goth

Hieroglyphics pre-date the establishment of the Kingdom of Egypt. The Writing system should be called Nile or Nile Valley or African or East African Writing system.

@@ohlangeni I'd love to learn more about the ancient history of the hieroglyphs and how they came to be!

I think that's a phony explanation

@@dlevi67 zing

@@dlevi67 Subtle wit.

"Although this was one of the least of the cultural effects of printing, it should serve to recall that one of the big factors in the Greek adoption of the letters of the phonetic alphabet was the prestige and currency of the number system of the Phoenician traders. The Romans got the Phoenician letters from the Greeks but retained a number system that was much more ancient." [Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. 11: Number]

@@chalinofalcone871 Hooked on phonics. How Phoenician.

The hebrew letter Aleph, A is the Ox, means "oneness with God, Strong arm, authority or "name" of God" So when the isrealites made the Golden Calf in Exodus, they were not making a "cow or bull", they were making an Aleph representing God. God got angry over it because He commanded them to NEVER make a carved image to represent Him or any other pagan diety.

Maholo🤙Shalom from an Australian. 😁

I'm a native Hebrew speaker. What is 'mahalo'?

@@Gideon01 Mahalo is the Hawaiian greeting & farewell. Like Shalom. Love, well wishes & peace to you & yours. Hawaiians are a beautiful people in that nature. Shalom Mahalo. ❤️🙏

@@barryblackwood6050 Oh, all right. I thought it was supposed to be something in Hebrew. I was only familiar with 'aloha'. Mahalo, then, and shalom u'vracha to you!

@@Gideon01 Hawaiian for "Thank you." I was born and grew up there. 🤙

Why would "having breakfast" need the word "literally" before it?

@@judahdaneshtaol because he was literally having breakfast

@@ludovicodemolina "He was having breakfast and watching this" - what does "literally" have to do with it?

Even the Maltese language is Semetic language. It is very similiar to arabic, but it is written in Roman alphabet. Best regards from Malta. God bless you all.

Or Latin (and coincidentally modern Italian and Spanish - the words are literally the same in all three, plus or minus a couple of diacritics) in the sign at 9:57

Even the script of Hindi language which is called Devnagri seems to have developed from the Hebrew language too

Yea since 1881

@@ghanvedsingh8946 more likely from Aramaic though...

@Somewhere No it didn't.

Shalom

Yes: Amharic, Ge'ez and Tigrinya. For example, one of these South Semitic languages features yaman ('the right hand'), cognate to the -yamin in Hebrew Ben-yamin ('son of the right hand').

Ditto

Hebrew - "Alef, Bet, Gimmel, Dalet" became Greek - "Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta" became Latin "A,B, C, D"

I wonder what links could be drawn here, between linguistical history and philosophy. I'm genuinely interested.

@@thevulture5750 Aren't you supposed to be making a Tower of Babel reference instead?

Why? Say more!

@@koppler84 Sounds like a cliche, but Bedouins there are living "The Bible". I'm native Egyptian and I still feel like Moses in dealing with them and exploring their culture. And, man, there's enough to right more books of the Bible and you won't miss a beat. As for languages, scripts and petroglyphs, enough to say that once you know your way in the desert routes, you'll see it everywhere and they tell the longest story ever told. Remember this is the middle east, cradle of everything and Sinai is the node that binds it.

Also, though I'm not interested in participating in any religion, I AM interested in the subject of religion. Religion is pertinent to all modern civilization. Subscribed.

Sounds fun

Masks are disgusting. Obey!

@@Bdfhvj I remember hearing about a piece of pottery that had 'recorded' someone speaking during the turning process. I doubt that to be true for several reasons - but I love the idea of it. It would be so cool to hear people speaking thousands of years ago.

This is honestly a top tier story concept

That sounds like an epic journey to take! I got English, Urdu, Punjabi, Spanish, French and some Tagalog down, I'd be OK for at least a little while...🤔

In Polish we have two words: "abecadło" which is basically the name of alphabet in learning (just as im the video), and "alfabet" - literally the synonym of "alphabet".

in Filipino we have “Alpabeto” and “Abesedaryo”

We don't actually, because we have the world ALFABETO. The abecedário is a tool which contains the alphabet for learning purposes, we have abecedários in primary school for example.

@@capybaraRed In English we call that “The a-b-c’s.”

In old Norse it is called a Futhark, because the norse alphabet begins with F.U.

אכן שפה מופלאה, אבל בסיס לרוב השפות הנפוצות היום? מה?

נכון כיף מאוד, רק חבל שהיא לא נשמעת יפה.

@@shira4442 למה לא?

@@shira4442 ורק שתדעי, צורת ההגייה המדוברת כיום אינה כמו הצורה העתיקה יותר. הצורה הכי קרובה שקיימת כעת היא ההגייה התימנית.

@@roeebn5809 כל הךךך והחחח גורמים לזה להשמע כמו העלת גירה 😩