John 19:19 (YHWH?)

[Paul Younan]

You yourself pointed out that we didn't always use the Ashuri script. You might as well suggest that Hebrew is based on Phonecian since Phonecian used the Paleo Hebrew script. We know from the DSS, various inscriptions, and even the Talmud that we did not always use the Ashuri script.

It goes back to what I said, there's very little originality to Hebrew. It never had a distinct script, no. First they used the Phoenician, then they switched over to the "Assyrian". Do you know why they called it "Assyrian" - take a looksey at the image below from Hatra in Assyria:



Look familiar? That's how they wrote in Hatra, in Nineveh province, Assyria. Modern-day Iraq.

That's "Ktav-Ashuri".

lol! You have more cultural pride than even the most ardent Zionists!

You forget that Aramaic is an adopted language to us Assyrians, as well. We didn't originally speak this language of you nomad types from the desert. I have enough cultural pride to know Akkadian is long dead.

This Aramaic is your language more than it is ours. Your ancestors were Arameans.....mine were Akkadian.

Do you see any glorifying of anything Assyrian here? Do you see the Assyrian flag, winged bulls?

Did I make a site dedicated to the Epic of Gilgamesh, or to the words of a Jewish Messiah?

Is the logo I have on the front page the name of a pagan Assyrian deity, or is that the unspeakable name of God as represented by the Tanakh?

If I have pride in anything, it's in the language of your Aramean ancestors, not mine. That we still have the words of the Jewish Messiah intact, not in some long-lost Hebrew version, but a living scripture that has survived unimaginable holocausts and bloodshed to be preserved for us today.

In any case, modern-day Hebrew was resurrected, for the most part, after the creation of the state of Israel. You seem to ignore the fact that in order for something to have been resurrected, a sane person must logically presume that it died sometime before 1948.

All evidence points to the captivities as to when the Hebrew language we know from the scripture for all intents and purposes ceased to be used as a vernacular of the common masses....and then eventually everyone. It became a liturgical language, like Latin in the Catholic Church today.

Yes, people still read and wrote in it...basically copying existing things like scripture. But they didn't go to the market and ask "how much for those pigeons?" in the old tongue of Moses. Otherwise they wouldn't have had a need for a meturgeman at shul.

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