Bart Ehrman

No, no, they're not estimates. He's basing this on a count of what the Hebrew words we have. But when people translated the Hebrew into the Greek, they didn't have just those 7,000 words. This was 2,000 years ago.

No, no, they're not estimates. He's basing this on a count of what the Hebrew words we have. But when people translated the Hebrew into the Greek, they didn't have just those 7,000 words. This was 2,000 years ago.

No, no, they're not estimates. He's basing this on a count of what the Hebrew words we have. But when people translated the Hebrew into the Greek, they didn't have just those 7,000 words. This was 2,000 years ago.

It doesn't matter how similar it is because it's not always that you take something more complicated and make it more simple or that you take something more simple and make it more complicated. You can absolutely just show time after time after time where that is and how it happens. There are also very good reasons for thinking it did not go from Greek to Hebrew.

It doesn't matter how similar it is because it's not always that you take something more complicated and make it more simple or that you take something more simple and make it more complicated. You can absolutely just show time after time after time where that is and how it happens. There are also very good reasons for thinking it did not go from Greek to Hebrew.

It doesn't matter how similar it is because it's not always that you take something more complicated and make it more simple or that you take something more simple and make it more complicated. You can absolutely just show time after time after time where that is and how it happens. There are also very good reasons for thinking it did not go from Greek to Hebrew.

Um... that went from something less complicated to more complex. For example, Hebrew to Greek. Coptic is a very simple language in many ways. You have Coptic – we have ancient Coptic texts. The grammar isn't as difficult. It gets translated into English all the time. English is a far more complicated language. Okay.

Um... that went from something less complicated to more complex. For example, Hebrew to Greek. Coptic is a very simple language in many ways. You have Coptic – we have ancient Coptic texts. The grammar isn't as difficult. It gets translated into English all the time. English is a far more complicated language. Okay.

Um... that went from something less complicated to more complex. For example, Hebrew to Greek. Coptic is a very simple language in many ways. You have Coptic – we have ancient Coptic texts. The grammar isn't as difficult. It gets translated into English all the time. English is a far more complicated language. Okay.

We don't know. For one thing, it's not that early. But what...

We don't know. For one thing, it's not that early. But what...

We don't know. For one thing, it's not that early. But what...

There wasn't a Septuagint. So when people talk about the Septuagint, they're using, when scholars say the Septuagint, they're using a shorthand. There were numerous translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek that were floating around.

There wasn't a Septuagint. So when people talk about the Septuagint, they're using, when scholars say the Septuagint, they're using a shorthand. There were numerous translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek that were floating around.

There wasn't a Septuagint. So when people talk about the Septuagint, they're using, when scholars say the Septuagint, they're using a shorthand. There were numerous translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek that were floating around.

And it'd be kind of like today if you go to some developing country and you have missionaries there who are trying to put parts of the New Testament into that language. So like you have these translators, these conservative missionaries who try – Wycliffe translators, they'll take the Bible and they'll put it into some language in Africa that hasn't ever been put into English before.

And it'd be kind of like today if you go to some developing country and you have missionaries there who are trying to put parts of the New Testament into that language. So like you have these translators, these conservative missionaries who try – Wycliffe translators, they'll take the Bible and they'll put it into some language in Africa that hasn't ever been put into English before.

And it'd be kind of like today if you go to some developing country and you have missionaries there who are trying to put parts of the New Testament into that language. So like you have these translators, these conservative missionaries who try – Wycliffe translators, they'll take the Bible and they'll put it into some language in Africa that hasn't ever been put into English before.

So you do that so that the people in that language can read it. In the ancient world, after – After Alexander the Great, so after the fourth century, Jews are spread throughout what was then – at one point it was kind of a Greek empire, but then became the empires around the Mediterranean. The educated people read Greek. They didn't read Hebrew.

So you do that so that the people in that language can read it. In the ancient world, after – After Alexander the Great, so after the fourth century, Jews are spread throughout what was then – at one point it was kind of a Greek empire, but then became the empires around the Mediterranean. The educated people read Greek. They didn't read Hebrew.