Bart Ehrman
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And so I have a secondary appointment at UNC Chapel Hill in the classics department. And those are the people I really resonate with are the classicists.
And so I have a secondary appointment at UNC Chapel Hill in the classics department. And those are the people I really resonate with are the classicists.
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The best? Yeah.
The best? Yeah.
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So, well, they're very different from each other.
So, well, they're very different from each other.
So, well, they're very different from each other.
Well, they're unrelated. And so Greek is an Indo-European language like English. And so the grammar of Greek can be taught. If somebody knows English grammar, which nobody does anymore, but if they did know English grammar, the grammar of the Greek makes sense in many ways. It doesn't in many other ways because it's an ancient language.
Well, they're unrelated. And so Greek is an Indo-European language like English. And so the grammar of Greek can be taught. If somebody knows English grammar, which nobody does anymore, but if they did know English grammar, the grammar of the Greek makes sense in many ways. It doesn't in many other ways because it's an ancient language.
Well, they're unrelated. And so Greek is an Indo-European language like English. And so the grammar of Greek can be taught. If somebody knows English grammar, which nobody does anymore, but if they did know English grammar, the grammar of the Greek makes sense in many ways. It doesn't in many other ways because it's an ancient language.
Hebrew is a Semitic language, and so it's different in every way. It has a different alphabet. Instead of going from left to right, it goes from right to left. It doesn't have the same ways of doing grammar. And so โ And there aren't as many texts in ancient Hebrew as there are in ancient Greek. For Greek, we have thousands and thousands of texts.
Hebrew is a Semitic language, and so it's different in every way. It has a different alphabet. Instead of going from left to right, it goes from right to left. It doesn't have the same ways of doing grammar. And so โ And there aren't as many texts in ancient Hebrew as there are in ancient Greek. For Greek, we have thousands and thousands of texts.
Hebrew is a Semitic language, and so it's different in every way. It has a different alphabet. Instead of going from left to right, it goes from right to left. It doesn't have the same ways of doing grammar. And so โ And there aren't as many texts in ancient Hebrew as there are in ancient Greek. For Greek, we have thousands and thousands of texts.
I mean, going back to Homer and Hesiod and on up, and it just goes forever. For the Bible, for the Hebrew, like biblical Hebrew, the Bible is the only Hebrew Bible, the only sources from its time period that we have. And so in some ways it's harder to analyze Hebrew texts when it comes to things like just words. Like if there's a word that occurs one time in the Hebrew Bible,
I mean, going back to Homer and Hesiod and on up, and it just goes forever. For the Bible, for the Hebrew, like biblical Hebrew, the Bible is the only Hebrew Bible, the only sources from its time period that we have. And so in some ways it's harder to analyze Hebrew texts when it comes to things like just words. Like if there's a word that occurs one time in the Hebrew Bible,
I mean, going back to Homer and Hesiod and on up, and it just goes forever. For the Bible, for the Hebrew, like biblical Hebrew, the Bible is the only Hebrew Bible, the only sources from its time period that we have. And so in some ways it's harder to analyze Hebrew texts when it comes to things like just words. Like if there's a word that occurs one time in the Hebrew Bible,