Is the Hebrew language really just Greek in disguise?
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Is the Hebrew language really just Greek in disguise?
In 1982 Joseph Yahuda published a book called Hebrew is Greek.
This book can be downloaded from: https://archive.org/download/Hebrew.is. ... e_text.pdf
In it Yahuda claims that the Hebrew language is really just the Greek language in disguise. Is this true?
Here are some quotes from the book:
Page 17. In fact, the outcome of my laborious, extensive, and elaborate research may be summed up in a brief sentence: Hebrew is Greek with a mask on.
Page 4. I maintain that biblical Aramaic and Hebrew are demonstrably Greek, in grammar as well as in vocabulary.
Page 5. the segregation of the Semitic from the Indo-European languages flies in the face of the philological facts and principles which I am about to prove.
Page 6. This, in deference to the time-hallowed dogma which has erected a barrier—not less forbidding because bogus—between the Semitic and the Aryan languages.
Page 7. That about four thousand years ago the whole of the Middle East was overrun, colonized, and controlled by Greek and allied tribes.
Page 670. The entire set-up of Hebrew worship was Hellenic. Abraham worshipped שרי/Ζεύς, the eternal God, judge of all the earth, who administered justice, differentiating between the righteous and the wicked. He gave the priest of אל עליון/ Ἠέλιος Ὑπερίων, the creator of heaven and earth, a tithe of all the booty acquired as a result of his victory over the captors of Lot; and swore by אל עליון. Moreover, he attempted to sacrifice his son on Mount מריה/μορία. Besides Zeus, Isaac and Jacob—no doubt, under the influence of Rebecca, Laban's sister—acknowledged the divinity of פחד/Φοιβος, and Jacob swore by פחד. His wife, Rachel, stole the תרפים/τρίπους from her father's shrine; and soon after returning to Canaan Jacob cleared his household of the native gods, the gods of בכר/εγχώριος. Long after the Patriarchs had died, and in spite of centuries of Egyptian influence, God revealed himself to Moses under the name of יהוה/Διός Παιανος, and the first two of the Ten Commandments declare יהוה to be the God of Israel, to the exclusion of other deities. Indeed, יהוה is a jealous God. It was peculiar of him that, whereas other gods were installed in temples of stone, he dwelt in a mobile סנה/σκηνή. As we have seen, the vocabulary relating to the structure, furniture and vessels of the משכן/σκήνημα, and to the rites and services thereat performed, is completely Greek.
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Is the Hebrew language really just Greek in disguise?
In 1982 Joseph Yahuda published a book called Hebrew is Greek.
This book can be downloaded from: https://archive.org/download/Hebrew.is. ... e_text.pdf
In it Yahuda claims that the Hebrew language is really just the Greek language in disguise. Is this true?
Here are some quotes from the book:
Page 17. In fact, the outcome of my laborious, extensive, and elaborate research may be summed up in a brief sentence: Hebrew is Greek with a mask on.
Page 4. I maintain that biblical Aramaic and Hebrew are demonstrably Greek, in grammar as well as in vocabulary.
Page 5. the segregation of the Semitic from the Indo-European languages flies in the face of the philological facts and principles which I am about to prove.
Page 6. This, in deference to the time-hallowed dogma which has erected a barrier—not less forbidding because bogus—between the Semitic and the Aryan languages.
Page 7. That about four thousand years ago the whole of the Middle East was overrun, colonized, and controlled by Greek and allied tribes.
Page 670. The entire set-up of Hebrew worship was Hellenic. Abraham worshipped שרי/Ζεύς, the eternal God, judge of all the earth, who administered justice, differentiating between the righteous and the wicked. He gave the priest of אל עליון/ Ἠέλιος Ὑπερίων, the creator of heaven and earth, a tithe of all the booty acquired as a result of his victory over the captors of Lot; and swore by אל עליון. Moreover, he attempted to sacrifice his son on Mount מריה/μορία. Besides Zeus, Isaac and Jacob—no doubt, under the influence of Rebecca, Laban's sister—acknowledged the divinity of פחד/Φοιβος, and Jacob swore by פחד. His wife, Rachel, stole the תרפים/τρίπους from her father's shrine; and soon after returning to Canaan Jacob cleared his household of the native gods, the gods of בכר/εγχώριος. Long after the Patriarchs had died, and in spite of centuries of Egyptian influence, God revealed himself to Moses under the name of יהוה/Διός Παιανος, and the first two of the Ten Commandments declare יהוה to be the God of Israel, to the exclusion of other deities. Indeed, יהוה is a jealous God. It was peculiar of him that, whereas other gods were installed in temples of stone, he dwelt in a mobile סנה/σκηνή. As we have seen, the vocabulary relating to the structure, furniture and vessels of the משכן/σκήνημα, and to the rites and services thereat performed, is completely Greek.
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