Bart Ehrman

The way you make an adjectival attribution in Hebrew is not by using an adjective, but by putting together two nouns and saying of. So the spirit of holiness means the Holy Spirit, or the way of righteousness means the right way. Okay? So Greek speakers don't do that. They use adjectives. Okay. But when you get in biblical Greek, Septuagint and the New Testament, you have these Semiticisms.

The way you make an adjectival attribution in Hebrew is not by using an adjective, but by putting together two nouns and saying of. So the spirit of holiness means the Holy Spirit, or the way of righteousness means the right way. Okay? So Greek speakers don't do that. They use adjectives. Okay. But when you get in biblical Greek, Septuagint and the New Testament, you have these Semiticisms.

That shows these are not original Greek compositions. Okay. They're being translated from Hebrew with using Semitic forms.

That shows these are not original Greek compositions. Okay. They're being translated from Hebrew with using Semitic forms.

That shows these are not original Greek compositions. Okay. They're being translated from Hebrew with using Semitic forms.

Well, I don't know what you mean by the original.

Well, I don't know what you mean by the original.

Well, I don't know what you mean by the original.

We have Hebrew manuscripts, yes.

We have Hebrew manuscripts, yes.

We have Hebrew manuscripts, yes.

I'm not sure what the them is that you're referring to. The manuscripts. We don't have the ancient – we don't have original manuscripts for any writing from the ancient world.

I'm not sure what the them is that you're referring to. The manuscripts. We don't have the ancient – we don't have original manuscripts for any writing from the ancient world.

I'm not sure what the them is that you're referring to. The manuscripts. We don't have the ancient – we don't have original manuscripts for any writing from the ancient world.

We don't have the original writings for Euripides or for Plato or for Cicero or for Seneca or for the Book of Isaiah or for the Gospel of Matthew. We don't have the originals for any of those. The original manuscript, if you mean by that, that the author sits down and he writes. So I'm Mark and I'm writing my thing and I write my thing. We don't have that thing he wrote.

We don't have the original writings for Euripides or for Plato or for Cicero or for Seneca or for the Book of Isaiah or for the Gospel of Matthew. We don't have the originals for any of those. The original manuscript, if you mean by that, that the author sits down and he writes. So I'm Mark and I'm writing my thing and I write my thing. We don't have that thing he wrote.

We don't have the original writings for Euripides or for Plato or for Cicero or for Seneca or for the Book of Isaiah or for the Gospel of Matthew. We don't have the originals for any of those. The original manuscript, if you mean by that, that the author sits down and he writes. So I'm Mark and I'm writing my thing and I write my thing. We don't have that thing he wrote.

Unless it's a personal letter, a correspondent. But in terms of literary texts...

Unless it's a personal letter, a correspondent. But in terms of literary texts...

Unless it's a personal letter, a correspondent. But in terms of literary texts...