Hey folks, I could give endless examples of how completely artificial and bogus this alleged pictographic meaning of Hebrew is, but for those who say Aleph means ox or master or leader, how did you get from ox to master? Which ancient pictograph told you that? If you say, well the Hebrew for father is ox+house, which you interpret to mean "master of the house" (again, completely gratuitously), then how about mother, which is ox+water (or, chaos), according to those who argue for a pictographic meaning. So, the mother is the chaos leader? What complete nonsense! And on and on it goes. It is out of love for God and love for the Word and love for the truth that we took the time to do this video. We strongly encourage you to be willing to throw out your pet theories and study things in depth. For every one alleged example where you think there's some special meaning in the letters, there are ten (or 100) where it doesn't work. This is fiction, friends, and nothing less. That's why some have gotten so nasty in their responses that we actually had to block some comments already. They are more committed to these fanciful theories then to simple biblical truth. May the Lord give His people the humility to study, learn, and discard error. We're here to help! (Although I hardly ever post comments to our videos, I truly wish I could respond to everyone who posts here. Unfortunately, that's not possible, but if you'll go through the video until it makes sense, then check out some good scholarly books on the history of writing and the history of the alphabet, things should be clear.) God bless!
As to mother she is the strong water, so what does that mean? What could strong water have to do with mother? What if someone were in the desert and came to an oasis, would that not be strong water? Now a mother could be strong chaos and we see that even today where some are just that. Also mother can be seen as one who is strong in what brings forth life, for water is needed for life and is where life does come. Where is an embryo incubated? Is it in air or is it in water? Even seeds need water to spring forth. So a mother is strong water and aleph, mem, nun means faith yet the word picture is of a mother's life. How hard is that and what is so mystical of that? What a good description of faith. We all need humility and we do need to discard that which does not agree with the Word of Elohim, but we also need to be careful we don't limit Elohim's Word.
Michael James, you are engaging in an act of spiritual fantasy, not one of coming to the Word in a childlike way. Does it not trouble you that you reading things into God's Word that He did not put there, things which cannot be empirically checked and are only subject to the limitations of your own mind? It is, in fact, an unspiritual thing to do, since it is saying that what our loving Father wonderfully spoke is not enough for us. It's also saying that we're getitng insights into the Word beyond what Jesus and the prophets and apostles received. That too is unspiritual and dangerous. So, in love, I urge you to step back and go to the Lord in humility rather than accuse others of not having a childlike faith. (I can't get into extended interaction here, but I hope you're open to truth.)
THE CREATORS HANDWRITING The Scriptures say God wrote The Book of Life and the 10 Commandments in His own unique handwriting. How could any logical person believe God wrote in chicken-scratch is beyond me. The names in the Book of Life are not in a script developed by mankind like the primitive pictographs of Paleo and cave drawings. Exodus 32:16 והלחת מעשה אלהים המה והמכתב מכתב אלהים Translation:” The Tablets the handiwork of God they were and the script, the script of God”. “THE SCRIPT OF GOD” in this passage is obvious not allowing credit to a writing developed by mankind. Exodus 32:32 לב ועתה אם-תשא חטאתם ואם-אין מחני נא מספרך אשר כתבת: Translation: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which you have written. Exodus 34:27 ויאמר יהוה אל-משה כתב-לן את-הדברים האלה Translation: Hashem said to Moses, Write for yourself these (specific) words. This was NOT a language developed by men from primitive pictographs. This was a new (to us) holy language given by the Creator in its complete form. Torah specifically makes an issue that this script was extremely unique and NOT the existing Paleo stick figures of the time. Elohime did not write in chicken scratch. May the Paleo community be know as an anti-Semitic heresy who’s aim is to persecute Israel who is the TRUE KEEPER OF TORAH. Gods handwriting is New (to us) and not the existing script of the time (Paleo) that was already being used and man made. Ex 32:18 “vitn” ויתן the first word means “He Gave”. This is a new gift. Torah is infinitely calculated and this is no mistake to show us that this was a new Writing “by the finger of God” It’s like the whole paleo community totally disregards reading the Torah to verify their teachings..... or, I submit once again, THAT THEY HAVE NO HEBREW TEACHERS to properly teach them Torah and for that matter, the entirety of all our scriptures and foundations. They claim to be Israel and fight over what tribe they are in and deny the Redemption paid for by Yeshua Hamassiah to adopt us into His home and above every tribe. Glory to God through the Son and bless His Holy Name forever and ever. Amen.
@@TheShalomPeace what about the script in the Torah scroll ktav ashuri is that the script that Yehovah wrote in the stone tablets and Instructed Moses to write in the first Torah scroll?
Mr. Brown, Hebrew, true Paleo Hebrew, is a concrete language that has non-abstract meanings and conveyances. I do not hold a degree in Paleo Hebrew, but from what I am speaking and using in my household, I communicate just fine. It's funny how people today use Aramaic as a replacement for Paleo, calling it "Modern Hebrew." That's the real nonsense. This is not accurate about true Ancient Paleo Hebrew!
@Humble Servant quick question, where can I download a Middle Hebrew font (paleo-Hebrew)? How did you get yours to be supported by Safari (or whatever internet browser) and write right-to-left? 😁
For those that have been Lead by the Hand by God/Elohim/Yahweh alone to study HIS WORD in a Loving LIGHT filled WAY, remain Steadfast. His Yoke is easy, His burden is LIGHT. Darkness cannot comprehend the LIGHT.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. It was not a primitive picture language. And It was not in chicken scratch.
@MsPositive You got it! The Strong Shepherd/Leader Reveals His Work on the Waters. Nobody can steal what the Hand Reveals and what the Nail reveals to you. Blessings!
Actually, the pictographic meanings do make a lot of sense. Regarding "father"; ox is the one at the forefront with the heavy yoke, the strong one who works the fields. Ox+house could be illustrative of the father, the strong one who works for and sustains the household, a leader. "Mother" doesn't mean chaos, as the letter mem doesn't exclusively symbolize chaos but can simply be 'water'. Aleph+Mem could simply be render as one with strength/power in water, i.e. one who brings forth life through the waters. Interestingly, mem also has a numerical value of 40, the number of weeks of the gestation period in a woman's (water-filled) womb. If you're not into the plaeo-Hebrew symbolism, that's fine. But to go on such a rant about how bogus and insane it all is, and how we're all being decieved.... is just odd. Lot more important issues to talk about. You're drowning in a cup of 'water' on this one.
Actually, if you'll sample 1,000 biblical Hebrew words or just read through any one verse, you'll see that for every alleged pictographic meaning that works, 100 do not work. The fact you can defend this indicates you don't understand why we took so much time to expose this serious and growing deception. We only presented facts here; no speculation.
What "deception"? What conspiracy is going on here behind the scenes that's somehow leading so many astray? What is this great threat to the christian world that you're exposing??? The Bible is FULL of symbolisms. Almost everything has some type of symbolism to it. I could give you a 100 reasons why Jesus isn't a "lamb", isn't a "door", isn't "bread", isn't a "vine". I mean, seriously, how insane and ridiculous is it that a vine represents a living person?! People aren't green. Vines don't have two eyes, (and 98 more reasons). RIght? You're doing exactly what the rabbis do. All the symbolism of old testament tabernacle/temples and their elements, animal sacrifices and rituals that point to Jesus, thrown out the window, each with a 100 reasons why they aren't or can't be, symbolic of Jesus. The pictograph meaning of the Hebrew ancient alphabet makes PERFECT sense as continues with this biblical tradition of heavily using symbolism. Again, this whole rant is just odd. If you don't like the idea of pictographs, that's perfectly fine! But hold your peace instead of accusing others of being insane.
So, if I read meanings into every one of your words to end up with a message that you never intended to convey, then claim you secretly placed it there, that is not wrong? And when we do it with God's Word, that is not deception? Again, we can't interact further here, but you do well to watch again with an open heart and mind. The truth is quite liberating. :) (This will be my last comment in response)
Seems like Dr. Brown is missing the point. I don't think anyone is saying that these pictographs should be used to determine the meaning of the letters of our modern languages. To me it just shows how the Word of God could have a level of revelation in the visual expression of the letters and words they form. It in no way establishes or changes any theological truths. It's just an interesting study to get some insight to how the ancients would have understood it. He makes it seem like this is some kind of theological heresy! Probably not entirely reliable, but nonsense, really?
Larry, thanks for your comment, but no, I'm not missing the point at all. First, people today are misusing the Hebrew text and coming up with all kinds of meanings that are not there. Second, the ancient Hebrews did NOT understand the letters as pictographs. That's the whole purpose of an alphabet. So, yes, when people are creating meanings out of thin air, misusing the biblical text, that is nonsense and it is dangerous (and it's totally unreliable).
I certainly understand your concern for the misuse of the Hebrew language by people, however it doesn't dismiss the idea that the pictographs could have been God's way of adding another dimension of truth to His Word. Of course your point that the changes that have occurred over time make it almost impossible to get those meanings with today's alphabet, however it doesn't dismiss the "possibility" there could be some divine design to it. I though your example that your name "Brown" would also have to follow this concept for it to be legitimate was somewhat of a straw man argument. It sounds like you are saying the pictographs only have relevance to the sound of the first letter of the word that describes the picture. Not sure how you could confirm this was the purpose determined for a language almost 4,000 years ago. I don't think it would have to work for an entire language in order to be true. It could only be unique to the biblical text. Certainly all ancient texts don't use typology to the degree that the Bible does, but that doesn't make typology nonsense. Most people see typology as a unique feature of God's way to communicate His truth to us, even though some people take it too far. I like a lot of your work, but was a little surprise of your total dismissal of the "possibility" of this idea.
Last comment: No sir, the pictographs do NOT add another dimension of truth to His Word. They add bogus interpretations and mass confusion and error. There's a good reason I don't know a single, reputable Hebrew scholar in the world who supports this stuff.
Sometimes people who do biblical work on a scholarly level are offended when something is discovered concerning their subject outside the scope of their expertise. This idea has nothing to do with scholarship or knowing the Hebrew language on that level. It could simply be something God chose to conceal in the design of His word. Again, you might be right on whether it is legitimate or not, but what Hebrew scholars say about it is not the determining factor as to its credibility. Christians are often challenged on the legitimacy of prophecy by skeptics for looking back after something has been fulfilled and saying look how God predicted it. So this concept could be guilty of the same thing, but that doesn't mean it has no merit whatsoever. Hebrew scholars are a great resource for anyone trying to understand the ancient language, however their expertise is only the language itself, not how God could choose to hide truth in it. I would challenge ANYONE on the ability to understand Jesus from the Old Testament before the New Testament revelation we have today. It has nothing to do with a high level of education. Scholars disagree on doctrine all the time with mutually exclusive positions, demonstrating this point. You can be entirely wrong on a subject, even as a scholar. Your video alone doesn't give sufficient evidence to totally dismiss this concept. Perhaps you could do a follow up video with more concrete evidence given the volume of videos on TH-cam concerning this idea and your vehement opposition to it. Thanks for your responses.
@@larrystewart6798 Square-Script is properly called Babylonian Aramaic: "...the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified." (Revelation 11,8)
Do you hold to the same assumptions regarding Chinese language? And please acknowledge these are assumptions. From what I watched, you seem to use an assumption to argue an assumption. A more honest approach would allow for the possibility the Paleo Hebrew ALSO has symbolic meaning. My opinion is that your video here was full of editorializing comments, filled with emotional reaction. That is neither an honest scholarly review nor well mannered. If this is your quoted PhD talking, you may want to seek out a refund.
Agreed. I wonder if Dr Brown has read work from real specialists in the field such as Mendenhall and Colless for example. Science is always evolving and improving and I totally agree that the assumptions he makes here are nothing more than assumptions, even though they might be shared by top scholars. Science is not a consensus set in stone but rather an ongoing debate of ideas and one should remain humble and open to learn more on this very complex world of ours.
According to B. Colless who expanded on the work of Mendenhall the proto-sinaitic/canaanite characters that predated paleo-hebrew could sound a letter, a syllable or actually represent the complete word associated to that letter (representing phonograms, syllabograms and also logograms and rebograms). This ability was retained by paleo-hebrew as a heritage and looking at the actual evidence from this hypothesis it is not unfunded at all and this possibility should not be dismissed despite standardization of writing around the Xth century BC. This last event does not contradict the hypothesis presented by the Mendenhall-Colless position and the assumptions of Dr. Brown seem to ignore this possibility held by a specialist and a prominent scholar in the actual field that interests us.
I’ve done a few paleo word studies on the name Yeshua, love and some others. To me, it reveals the heart of Abba. Word studies on the name meanings in the lineages have beautiful meanings as well.
Well said. This type of knowledge should only be observed when you have a strong foundational understanding of scripture. The paleo script should not dictate any truth as the context of bible scripture is more authoritative. Nevertheless, the paleo hebrew can still be appreciated as it does support scripture contrary to the beliefs of Dr.Brown.
How could y’all say the ancient text wouldn’t be right but the Bible translated so many times is right smh if salvation is that important learn the Hebrew the Israelites were speaking seek do as much as it takes the god of this earth is Satan don’t be deceived when you put the most high first he will show you what to do!!
@Darin Johnson I knew it would come out sooner or later. Listen to this very carefully. Blacks come from Africa. They are NOT the True Hebrews. Stop with the self hate and accept the skin God has given you. It's so sad to see black folks claim this year to be the real Native Americans then next year the real Latinos then after that the True Hebrews. Accept what you are and be thankful you were given life
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
I think what I am witnessing here is men being wise in their own eyes as it is written. Do not be dismayed at evildoers. Truth will be revealed no matter what false teachings are out there. What is hidden will be revealed despite the agendas to prove or disprove. May YHVH continue to speak to His people and as we return May we see all that was hidden. Amein.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
THE CREATORS HANDWRITING The Scriptures say God wrote The Book of Life and the 10 Commandments in His own unique handwriting. How could any logical person believe God wrote in chicken-scratch is beyond me. The names in the Book of Life are not in a script developed by mankind like the primitive pictographs of Paleo and cave drawings. Exodus 32:16 והלחת מעשה אלהים המה והמכתב מכתב אלהים Translation:” The Tablets the handiwork of God they were and the script, the script of God”. “THE SCRIPT OF GOD” in this passage is obvious not allowing credit to a writing developed by mankind. Exodus 32:32 לב ועתה אם-תשא חטאתם ואם-אין מחני נא מספרך אשר כתבת: Translation: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which you have written. Exodus 34:27 ויאמר יהוה אל-משה כתב-לן את-הדברים האלה Translation: Hashem said to Moses, Write for yourself these (specific) words. This was NOT a language developed by men from primitive pictographs. This was a new (to us) holy language given by the Creator in its complete form. Torah specifically makes an issue that this script was extremely unique and NOT the existing Paleo stick figures of the time. Elohime did not write in chicken scratch. May the Paleo community be know as an anti-Semitic heresy who’s aim is to persecute Israel who is the TRUE KEEPER OF TORAH. Gods handwriting is New (to us) and not the existing script of the time (Paleo) that was already being used and man made. Ex 32:18 “vitn” ויתן the first word means “He Gave”. This is a new gift. Torah is infinitely calculated and this is no mistake to show us that this was a new Writing “by the finger of God” It’s like the whole paleo community totally disregards reading the Torah to verify their teachings..... or, I submit once again, THAT THEY HAVE NO HEBREW TEACHERS to properly teach them Torah and for that matter, the entirety of all our scriptures and foundations. They claim to be Israel and fight over what tribe they are in and deny the Redemption paid for by Yeshua Hamassiah to adopt us into His home and above every tribe. Glory to God through the Son and bless His Holy Name forever and ever. Amen.
@@TheShalomPeace Square-Script is properly called Babylonian Aramaic: "...the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified." (Revelation 11,8)
Much in God's Word can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit. I studied under eminent Professors at university. They took great delight in 'disproving' the Word of God. This appealed to their academic pride. Likewise, with the deeper things of the Lord you can only perceive them through the power of the Holy Spirit who is the revealer of all things. In my over 30 year journey with the Lord and studying His Word I came more and more to understand how the Hebrew language is a perfect language Zephaniah 3:9 and could only have been written by God Himself. Just His name, the tetragrammaton reveals so much. This name hung above Yeshua on the cross ✝️ and literally means 'Hand of grace nailed in grace'. However, you need revelation of the Holy Spirit to see the meaning of each letter in the context of the whole word and its awesome authority, power and significance. Sadly, all my professors were blinded by their academic pride and they could not see the truth in the divinely inspired Word of God and His perfect language. יהוה
I actually bought one of these books, and the author makes claims that aren't supported by Scripture. Thanks Dr. Brown for breaking this down. I must admit that I was a little disappointed to find out none of this is true because it all sounds really nice, however you hit the nail on the head when you said we must look at Scripture for what it is and not try to read all this stuff into it. The author makes it seem like this is some crazy revelation that has been revealed to him only for our time. That is in and of itself the biggest red flag.
THE MASHIACH's follower Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
"It's just an alphabet" is totally correct. I agree wholeheartedly, Dr. Brown. However, I found this to be at the very least, an interesting coincidence: "Sign" like in the "sign" of the Sabbath, being aleph vav tav, seems to have the meaning of "a silent sacrifice nailed to a cross", Jesus being the alef tav; the beginning and the end. I believe that the "sign" of the Sabbath, eventually placed as the fourth commandment, was the promise of a "sabbath rest of God" whereby Jesus would provide the rest from human effort toward salvation for whosoever would believe in Him. I also see the "sign" of circumcision given to Abraham as the promise that one day Jesus would come in the flesh and be "cut off" but not for Himself in order to bring us from the old covenant system (what Paul calls "the flesh") into the new covenant system of the "spirit" being fulfilled on pentacost or shav uot the sign of sevens (owt = sign shav = seven) in the counting of the omer plus one day. If both the Sabbath and circumcision were "signs", and each one held the promise of Jesus in them, could there be any merit at all to the alef vav tav being "sign" depicting a silent sacrifice nailed to a cross?
It's about the root word. AB is the root that means father (Abba) or ABraham. Ox means strong or leader and tent(bet) means tent ,house. So ab is leader of the house.....or father
You nailed it, Yiddish is a mixture of German language and Hebrew Alphabet words, it amazes me how people get upset because they kno that they are from japhite, Russia and Turkish descent, a people who do not fit any of the curses of Dueteronomy, 2 Esdras I kno they work those of whom say they are Jews but ye not,, I will mk them of the synagogue of satan, the truth is coming out in a plethora of flooding the truth,
@@miltonwilliams3649, Discovered, the GHABARAY HEBREW, just a few months ago... And they reject this modern block Hebrew, with the Vowel points, thats known as the MASORETIC TEXT, as incorrect Hebrew... These Ghabaray, teachers, say that GOD's True Name, is YA'OH... GOOGLE Ghabaray Hebrew...
I just saw this video and I'm learning ancient Hebrew letters and pictographs and as I'm watching this I'm hearing the article that u show as factless I'm sitting down thinking I'm glad I know what בראשית means and can use the picture meanings in a more common sense way of proper interpretation not false 😁
It's obvious Brown's put passion & hard work into defending his position, so thanks for your zeal! But what's also obvious is that there undeniably IS meaning to some, if not ALL of the letters, without question, and Brown would have to admit this. I've been studying Hebrew(Masoretic), and I know enough to explain that certain letters DO have meanings. One of the clearest it Lamedh( ל) Deut. 14.1. It is a letter, that phonetically, is a word, which means guide/teach/learn/incentivize, as a shepherd goads sheep with a staff...it also symbolizes 30...that's one. Now Alef. Just like Alef symbolizes numerically "one", it can also mean "thousand", and if you read the Midrash, well you've only just begun to open the box, not to mention are negating Gematria altogether? Shall we mention then that the letter "beyt"( ב) phonetically, (sounds like "bait", in English)carries with it the meaning "house", and simultaneously carries the numeric value of "2". Call it what you want, symbolism, or some other words I'm not smart enough to know right now, there's levels of meaning to the letters. BTW, I'm not trying to make myself look right by making Brown look wrong. To me, it's a case of, "if the person who's seeing a meaning in the letters below the surface of the letter itself, and the final product is that they're more in love with God's Word, and it makes them a better person, inspires them and brings healing and more imagination to themselves, and those around them, what's the big deal?" We all do and think stupid stuff, we all have blinders. How is Brown harmed by this? I think one who assumes the posture of final arbiter with respect to the meanings of letters, unless they completely teach a wrong translation, is simply being pedantic, or worse still, they could be standing on the thin ice of legalism.
Bravo to everyone! by your comments you know that Yah has maintained His codes inside of the languages and that He created All languages from Hebrew at the Tower of Babel. All languages that you show here Dr. Brown, bear a resemblance to ancient Hebrew because that is where they all come from. The alphabet means the two firsts letters in the Hebrew language/ Aleph and Bet, this is where all alphabets come from. To imply that the original meaning s have all been completely lost including the coding of the coming messiah, does not accept the observable facts nor does is honor Yahs ability to maintain His desired meanings most everywhere.
Feed My Sheep Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
That is funny. That was the first "Alphabet". Now Dr. Brown says these are not pictographs but just an Alphabet, yet there was not a single case of Alphabet before that. funny how circle reasoning works :)
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
Modern Hebrew letters are actually the Aramaic font. When you look at the Phoenician Hebrew, you can see how the letters had evolved from the Paleo Hebrew, but the Aramaic text is quite different.
Our relationship with G was always meant to be a personal one. Who is wise enough to place limits on how one is to find that incredibly personal experience of seeing the truth through its original form? Though I rely on many interpretations and accounts to uncover the trail of the word from it's origin, I've come to the conclusion G speaks less in words and more in symbols. Each symbol holds individual impressions of these symbols as individuals have encountered them in the course of their lives allowing an unmistakable understanding for one's own self of the WORD. Discouraging attempts to make connections because you've not discovered them for yourself, is to turn seekers away from the Lord. As well implying there is something to fear in the Lord's creations. "He saw that it was good". Could any garden be so perfect as the one we live in? Could a human being feel any larger sense of aww and beauty as when one gazes on a mountain range absent of man's hotels and shops in G's pure glory. No word in that book we call Bible was not placed there by the hand of man albeit at the command of the Lord. You speak words not of the Lord's mouth. Careful kind sir. You have a beautiful heart but your beliefs are dressing up as his word.
Well yes. But G was never separate from us. traditionally, the Hebrew bible is meant to be "man's interpretation OF G's word" and not directly G's word. Why? Because the "voice of God" is that which you can only hear when you are oriented correctly, inward. The inner conscious, emotions and understanding right from wrong when you see it. Being able to discern the just from the unjust. THAT in Judaism, IS "the voice of God". AND that's really all that Yeshua guy was talking about. "Rebuilding the temple" is never meant to be fulfilled, neither is the "coming messiah". Revelations for instance is not about how to bring the end times, it's the complete opposite. It's saying, don't wait for the end times, or "God's wrath" or "planetary destruction" to find "peace on earth" because you never will. You can only find "inner peace". Eternal peace comes only with death. There is ONLY one unfulfilled "prophecy" in the Hebrew bible and that "prophecy" is NEVER meant to be fulfilled. Because if it were it would defeat the entire purpose of the actual text and the "journey". If the physical temple were rebuilt, people would stop trying to "rebuild their temple", ie THEMSELVES. It's saying if you are waiting for the end times, you might be waiting an extraordinarily long time for nothing, because you will be dead by then, by way of war, famine or pestilence etc... Well, there is a whole lot of content "hidden" within the bible. But it is all very basic, based on math, geometry, astrology/astronomy, metaphor, allegory etc... But no pictographs. There is symbolism in the bible. But it's not based on pictograms/pictographs. It's based on numeric value and symbolism. You can read the Samaritan torah in the ancient script, and it's still numeric and symbolism. "Discovering them yourself" means "imagining" things that aren't there.
You sir strike me as a intelligent man so why the miss info ? Paleo Hebrew had real Meaning for actual tangible things or actions , unlike this Babel we speak today. If you want to know the true meaning of a word you have to go to the root.
@@darthrubik8384 yup, watch it... total bias spin to the ignorances of indoctrination, Paleo is both types of text. He only sees font and not truths in scriptures. YAH is the Aluf-Tuv and every letter /pictograph in between. Praise YAH firmly Worship YAH humbley Give thanks for the Messiah Halalu-YAH !
@Humble Servant , maybe you should accurately "depict". Your TH-cam name..... since you represent an arrogant self-righteous fool instead of a "humble servant"🤣
@@Hebrew42Day, But the true Hebrews, didnt copy Egyptian Language.... The True Language, is GHABARAY HEBREW... according to the teachers of it... They say GOD's true name, is YA'OH... I personally dont know what to make of it ? Because i just discovered it, a few months ago...
Etymology and word meanings are two separate facts. What a word means is how the native speakers use it, period. And in that regard, Dr Brown's assertion that interpreting scripture using etymological meaning is dangerous is a valid point. However, etymology simply tells us how the meaning of that word evolved, up to a certain point in history, including, potentially the present time. It is a valid study in its own right, even if it may not be the right tool for scriptural interpretation. In the case of OT, the added consideration is the fact that it is available in two very different languages. Having said that, the most likely evolution of Hebrew writing system was from hieroglyphs. The language already existed. During evolution of the writing system, hieroglyphs were probably reduced to their initial sound, to create phonetic tokens/syllabi.
I personally believe, even if the pictographic hebrew letters had different meaning back in ancient times, that the way we interpret it today, is a gift from above. Truth has many layers. The foundation of our faith is always centered in Yahushua - who is The Way (of life). May we all walk before YHWH with fear trembling and love in YAHUSHUA. Amen.
This Langue Is spiritual and is of the most High. Just because you don't understand it does not mean its not authentic . Its not for you or anybody who is not of the spirit.
Thanks Dr. Brown. I was introduced to a person looking for the hidden meaning of the pictographs years ago. I had never heard of something so far fetched. Eventually, I told him I could not answer his questions because they were nonsense. Mind you I have had four levels of Biblical Hebrew, 2 levels of Aramaic, and a smattering of Greek. The one thing about people that push this idea is that they do not trust scholars.????
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
Nunu Cee I agree with you! I feel the same.Had interest until I heard his way of expressing himself. A servant of the ALMIGHTY is a humble servant not one that shows ego and self righteousness.
I recommend Douglas Pietrovich to study how the Oldest alphabet developed from hieroglyphs. It is not fitting to dismiss the whole idea that there is significance to the pictographs behind the Hebrew letters. There are some beautiful things unveiling here. If you are well versed in the Bible and understand the heart of God, there is much to be appreciated looking at the pictographs. But certainly if we randomly take any word and use the pictographic letters as means of interpretation, that seems very silly. Of course there are many videos/theories out there that do not hold. I cannot dismiss or agree completely to this rant by Dr. Brown. The video presents in a way that makes it difficult to take seriously. Ox + Father = Dad Meaning: Strength of the Family, Ox + Water = Mom Meaning: Glue (strong water) of the family, is much better. I dont think people necessarily loose their heads over this allegedly dangerous theory, but yes i understand the caution. And I guess it is called for. But if you could stay calm and not loose balance, this would make for a much better case. I have spent a couple of years looking at this, as an artist. Shalom!
@ART BY Anne Olaug - The problem is that some people make up their own meanings to support their Christology. The more primitive the word is, especially with root words, the easier it is to understand the pictographic meaning. Let's take the word aleph+lamed (ox head+goad), which is "el". It's been translated as "god," but it means "power, might, strength." Why? Well, there's a representation of an "ox" and a "goad." If one has an "ox to goad" then one is demonstrating "power, etc." What goads your ox? What is the driving or motivation force in life? Let's also note that the letter lamed as a prefix in Hebrew is the preposition "to; for" and (אֵל) is the preposition "to; unto; towards." Further, one must view these pictograms through the eyes of the ancient herdsmen and agriculturalists who employed them. The letter "aleph" is the first letter in the Hebrew alephbet and since owning cattle was a status symbol ... an "ox" might also have represent the concept of "prime; first; head, etc." The letter "bet" in pictographic form is a "tent." The Hebrew word for father just alludes to him being "head of household," so to speak, and the mother was in charge of the well water for her family, the fields, and/or their livestock. Like you, I cannot dismiss or agree completely with Dr. Brown's rant.
Edmund Marler Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
@@TheShalomPeace So you do know that the ancient phoenicians/hebrew does look like chicken scratches? Since distances were great there is also some variation in phoenicians/hebrew script. But modern square hebrew does a wonderful job of presenting the depth of meanings.
Let's take the first two alphabets. Alefh (Ox head) means authority, power. Beyt (tent/house) means family. The word, father (אָב) means authority of the family. That's just from a bi-literal word. With just 19 letters, vocabulary of a triliteral roots of 6,859 words can be constructed, that is just assuming one meaning assigned to each letter.
The GHABARAY HEBREW, is the only True Language, Sanctioned, by GOD... According to the teachers of GHABARAY....so they say.. They also say GOD's true name is YA'OH.... .I personally dont know what to make of it ? Just discovered this a few months ago..
You have conveniently left out the two letter prime root words in Hebrew. Ancient Hebrew doesn't really have all that much in common with modern Hebrew. Mother in paleo Hebrew, AMA. Strength/leadership + [a liquid], water or blood. LOOK AT THE SPELLING! BUT as you come forward in time this wont necessarily work. I'm not going to waste a lot of my time or yours. You probably wont consider my argument anyway, so I will cut to the chase. You are wrong.
@@davidmcbride1117 Aleph/Strong Mem/water = glue. Mother is the one who holds the family together and is also the Aleph/First Mem/Water of the baby. It's pretty clear but like everything in scripture much is hidden and you have to have the eyes to see it. Dr Brown is more blind on this than I care to describe.
May all Paleo Pride supporters be known as Anti-Semitic by their opposition to the Hebrew Scriptures in the Tanach. 1. Ezra gave us the Torah in Block Script not Paleo Slave Language (PSL) 2. Ezra made that copy from the scroll that was found before the captivity. It was “THE” Book Of The Law from Moses. And obviously not in PSL. 3. The Paleo Pride Movement disrespects the Hebrew Roots of the American Jewish community and its publishers who preserved and delivered us the Tanach simultaneously insulting those who gave their lives to preserving Torah for us over the centuries. 4. Deny testimony of rabbinical professors 5. Deny the Scriptures where Josiah reads THE Book Of The Law were directly preserved since Moses and is the Torah as found in the Tanach. 6. Will not provide a teacher / Leader of their movement. So there is no authority and no accountability. 7. If Ezra had changed the script from Paleo to Block in the book of Moses, it would have been WELL KNOWN. To suggest PSL was the original tongue is an incredible insult to the nation of Israel, to the Great Synagogue, also to Ezra The Scribe the High Priest. 8. Openly Defy all authorities on the Hebrew Bible, Tanach and the full copies of the Torah that we have in our homes now and do that with only a few scraps and no complete manuscripts of PSL. 9. Lack the necessary Holy Spirit to decipher the true from false in the Oral Law. 10. Deny the Oral Law is an attachment to the Torah and referred to by Moses. The true keeper of Torah is the Nation of Israel. To deny the record that the Jews have preserved our Hebrew roots is titanic error and anti-Semitic. Exhibit of proof: MIRACLE LETTERS As early as 500c well before any paleo arguments started it was well established that the Ashurit Script was the ONLY consideration as the Style Moses used. ~ The Talmud (explains that the letters were engraved all the way through the stone to the opposite side. Now, since the letters samech ״ס״ and (final) mem ״ם״ in the Ashurit are completely closed, the section of stone in their centers was unattached to the body of the Tablets, and could have remained in place only through a miracle. This, however, is true only with regard to ketav Ashurit Script. In ketav Ivri, neither the mem nor the samech are completely closed. So it is impossible for the direct historians to the Most Holy Book in the world would even have considered ANY other script You will notice also that the Ashurit script Does Not Change over 100’s of years while Paleo has major changes. A) One comment from Mar Zutra (some say Mar Ukva) said: “Originally, the Torah was given to Israel in Ivri letters and in the “sacred” (Hebrew) language. (This is a Kabbalah / spiritualism theory). Later, in the times of Ezra, the Torah was given in Ashurit script and the Aramaic language. Finally, they selected for Israel the Ashurit script and the Hebrew language, leaving the Ivri characters and the Aramaic language for the commoners.” This comment totally disagrees with the Talmud. b) It was taught: Rebbi said: “Torah was originally given to Israel in Ashurit script. When they sinned, it was changed to roetz (Ivri script). When they repented, Ashurit script was reintroduced . . .” c) R' Shimon ben Elazar said in the name of R' Eliezer ben Parta, who said in the name of R' Elazar Hamoda’i: “This writing was never changed [i.e., it was always in Ashurit script].” In the Yerushalmi Megillah chapter one, halacha nine it states they were in Assyrian script…and this script none knew but the Heavenly host…and as soon as the Tablets were given they were hidden in the Ark and they were not taken out. And they were filed away in the days of Jeremiah the prophet, so that no man saw them…because the script was so holy Moshe was not allowed to write in the Assyrian script, SUMMRY: The claim that paleo is the original script is lifeless. If the Script had changed Ezra and the Great Synagogue would have made it well known. It would have been common knowledge and a major news topic almost as large as the Exile itself. Can you imagine the Jews not having a nationwide debate over something as important as this? There would have been well known heated arguments lasting 100’s of years! But no, only since Paleo scraps have been found in The 1950’s and then recently misrepresented by leaderless individuals with no accountability.
Small detail: Crucifiction was not originated by the Romans: The oldest crucifixion may be a post-mortem one mentioned by Herodotus. Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, was put to death in 522 BC by Persians, and his dead body was then crucified."
Yahwah is the name of Elohim. And Yahwahshua is his son that died for our sins. He died and took the death penalty out of the law. We need to learn the laws in the Torah (old testament of the bible). Learn the 10 commandments. Learn the song of Moses. Learn the song of the lamb. Learn the true name of our Mighty One! It is Yahwah! You need to study the root meaning of words! Read the bible! The Jesuits created the name Jesus with the j hook, the name Jesus comes from the name Zeus. Gnashing of teeth! Yahwah is the sound of breath. Yah for breath in and Wah for breath out! Fear YHWH. And learn his commandments and laws. And obey them! Do not trust someone that tells you not to keep the laws of YHWH! We are not fighting flesh and blood. We are fighting demons! Repent and wear Sackcloth! Fear YHWH. Fear, hear, learn and obey!
Thank you Dr. Brown for making this video! I just rediscovered the paleo-Hebrew script, and your video saved me from who knows how much wasted time, not to mention error! Here's a meaningful pictograph just for you 🤗
Anglo-Humanist Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
Anglo-Humanist actually, there are no complete books in Palio Hebrew. So they’re not reading the Bible. Whatever works they have have hundreds and hundreds of errors. Peace Angelo! And watch out for the caveman!
@@TheShalomPeace This is true, the Bible we have comes from the Ashurit script which was adopted after the exile and based on what the Aramaic speakers of the region were using. A lot of the OT is written in Aramaic.
Thank you for this. Can you please teach us about the the vowel points that were inserted in to the Masoretic text which added a filter to the word of God reflecting Jewish theology? The fact that there were no vowels written and that the vowel sounds were only passed down through oral tradition is very problematic I think.
JTM Peter Galgiani Also Yehoshua himself testified that the Block style Hebrew along with the vowel pointing preserved today in the Lenigrad Codex and Massoretic text are inspired. Matthew 5: 18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Translated accurately from it's original source of Hebrew the rendering would say: Matthew 5: For I tell you truly, until Heaven and Earth pass away, Not a single Yod, nor stroke of the pen/accent mark or vowel point, will be done away with until everything is accomplished. These same endorsers of the Paleo Hebrew assert that the Vowel pointing was a deception invented by the Tiberian Masoretic Scribes over 1000 years ago. This is a huge lie. truthwatchers.com/evidence-hebrew-vowel-points-inspired/
@@TheShalomPeace Oh you read the New Testament? Busted! Then you have read that the Messiah has hands and feet the color of brass as if it was burned in a FIRE 🔥! He is from the house of Israel which means that his family members look like brass that have been burned in a fire 🔥!
There is something Dr Brown did not touch upon, and that is that pictographs had sounds. sounds come out of our mouths, not pictures. So, a bull's head is B-U-L-Z H-E-D in sounds, but just one picture when written. The evolution from picture to alphabet is the journey of writing sounds. Since all words share sounds with other words, our written code, our alphabet makes writing millions of pictures unnecessary. At the offset, it might seem that an alphabet is WORSE than a pictographic system, after all a bull's head in one symbol, instead of 9 letters, an apostrophe and a space 11 typed characters. But letters are reusable in other words, while the bull's head is not. "Bill's here" uses almost all the same ingredients of bull's head, yet in pictographs one would need at least two new pictures, one meaning Bill (and not Bob, Dave, Tim, etc...) and one signifying here (not there) and probably one signifying his arrival or motion (not leaving) The alphabet, by destroying and no longer employing pictographic methods of treansferring information cannot do what it does AND still represent the pictographic system.
I don’t see how what you are saying disproves what I have heard about paleo Hebrew. You are talking about other civilizations that created cuneiform writing etc. Thank you for the lesson but that evolution of how their languages evolved does not prove or disprove anything about Hebrew. God created Hebrew not man.
buzzbbird Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
@@TheShalomPeace No, it does not, in ANY possible translation say it was in his own language or any such similar thing. It does, in all possible translation possibilities, teach and say that the writings were his , meaning Moses did not chisel them out.
Moreover, the "bar" in the word Bereshit is not the Hebrew word for son It is the Aramaic word for son. So, the proponent of the Christological meaning of the word Bereshit would have to explain why an Aramaic word was embedded in Bereshit.
Probably because it's prophetic? That's kind of the whole point, modern hebrew didn't exist when these symbols were used, and as both Hebrew and Aramaic were used in the writing of the Bible, it also fits that these languages have intermixed a great deal in their natural evolution. Language is not a steady structure that changes from one moment to another, it evolves very slowly along with peoples.
Aren't we talking about the transition from symbols to word spellings? Clearly the original usages of symbols (of all the most ancient languages) would combine symbols to make a unified thought that would later be simplified into that word and its meaning. It seems all they are doing is decoding backwards. Much like the theory of Evolution. I've tried this on numerous Hebrew words and their is some logic to it, not at all precise and I wouldn't go building doctrines on it. At the least it is novel concept and at most it can be made to reinforce the word meaning helping with understanding. It is good to know that there is this challenge to this teaching style. It is reminiscent to Numerology of the 60's and 70's. Thanks
Actually, this is not quite correct. Once the symbols became consonants, based on the first letter of the symbol, the pictorial meaning was of lost. So, the transition was from pictographs to ideograms to syllabary (or, straight) to alphabet.
No doubt many concepts and transition were lost to history, but I cannot buy into a strict cut off point. Language transitions slowly over time. I still see that some logical symbol construct exists by combining a series of symbols creating a separate thought or sentence. A spelled out word or name was at some time in its past existing only as series of symbols. When a Hebrew scribe spelled out say the name "ADAM" it was at one time in its history a combined symbol name. They did not just come up with some new spelling of that name. I admit ancient language is not my field of study so I take what you say with a heavy measure of consideration. Thanks for the response.
@@LFTV, Not according to the GHABARAY HEBREW, teachers... They still retain the Original Letters, without the Vowel Points.... Look up GHABARAY Hebrew....
@@steveneff7334,Not true... GHABARAY HEBREW, is the true HEBREW, according to the teachers of GHABARAY... and GOD's true Name, is YA'OH.... according them.. I personally, dont know what to make of it ? Just discovered it, a few months ago....
Dr. Douglas Petrovich MDiv, ThM, MA, PhD, has now translated those Serabit writings and they are proto-Hebrew. Hebrew was the first consonental alphabet and it appears that it was Joseph's son Manasseh (Hebeded-He-Who-Was-Disfavored) who made the consonantal alphabet using pictures from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
My understanding is that modern day Hebrew is a language just like any other language but...Biblical Hebrew is God's language. I absolutely love the biblical meanings of the letters etc. Thank you so much.
Vowelled Masoretic was not in use in Moses' time, nor was Square script, and Paleo Hebrew also wasn't even in existence, or at least has not been proven to have been, when Moses was alive as he lived long before even it came into use. The script in use in Moses' time would have been Proto-Sinaitic script or perhaps Egyptian Hieroglyphs as Moses, as the scriptures says, was instructed in the knowledge of the Egyptians. Paleo Hebrew, used from the 12th to 6th century BC (around 2,000 years older than Masoretic) gave way to Square Hebrew (around 1,300 years older than Masoretic). But if one wants to write original Hebrew one should learn to write Paleo Hebrew as it would be more ancient and authentic than Masoretic, vowelled Hebrew. We can see from the Silver Scroll, numerous clay items, seals, etc, that Paleo preceded Square Script, but followed after Proto-Sinaitic. We may not be able to prove with 100% certainty what language God's finger inscribed upon the 2 stone tablets, but it certainly wasn't vowelled Masoretic as it wasn't in use right after that and it is at best a very long shot to be Paleo although still possible. Best bet, since Moses would be able to read it and transmit it to the people, would be the 10 commandments were written in Proto-Sinaitic or Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Edit: and one shouldn't call Proto-Sinaitic scratch as it is far from that.
@@raymack8767 nice comment. But I don’t think it was Egyptian writings, it may have been influenced by it and therefore that why there are meanings for each of the letters and not just as syllabic creation of words. Dr. Brown is not connecting the dots of Hebraic Aleph bet and linguistics , like you have so well in your comment. The name of the video is so off ? He barely touches on Paleo Hebrew and that’s not his issue any way. It’s the Proto-Siniatic ideograms that he has the issue with. Like you said Moses and his people lived in Egypt for 400 years or so, therefore the Hebraic language had to take influence from the Egyptian language and culture. Just as the Hebraic language went through drastic changes in Babylon/Aramea/Chaldea , going from a standard Paleo Hebrew, to a box Aramean/Chaldean script. The Aramaic and Akkadian influence is unavoidable. Many words were adapted and adopted , as I said the style of writing of each letter of the Aleph bet changes and this is just an assumption but pronunciation and accents MUST have changed , at least a little bit, after being in bondage all those years, until Persia took over and Ezra was sent back to teach the Torah and Nehemiah then built the walls of Yerushalim back. Anyway this comment went long. God bless in Yeshuas Holy name !
@@SaintSergey that's the common theory, but there's another that those on the northern coasts that became the people called Phoenicians had influences from their Israelite neighbors and adopted their script. The tribe of Dan could have been integrated (grafted in) with the people known as the Phoenicians.
I'll go with Dr Brown on this. He has been studying ancient languages forever and has many advanced degrees in them. People love to come up with all kinds of new ideas, but the old chestnut bears listening - if you suddenly have figured out something new about the bible after all these thousands of years after all these brilliant inspired men have been studying it, be very careful you are not just falling into a deception of your own desire.
It is best that we get together as layman researchers invested in exploring new possibilities of the underlying puzzles of YHVVH's scriptural Tetragramaton instead of listening to all those so called Rabbi's and P.H.D'ers who end up trying to be the only authority on Gods grand puzzle and designs and hidden treasures. Those so called Rabbi's and P.H.D'ers end up being like the F.D.A and Emperial Britain hiding Africas past and Israels past and Alotment from God.
@@annamolly6421 Titus 1:10, 11 10For there are many rebellious men, profitless talkers, and deceivers, especially those who adhere to the circumcision. 11 It is necessary to shut their mouths, because these very men keep on subverting entire households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.
But you can't read in "anything" you want. The alphabet is set and the origin is the origin. Aleph has a specific concept - and no other. This sounds like a common historian's concept of Hebrews not being in Egypt at a certain time simply because their perception was off by 250 years. The concept that the Hebrews "borrowed" from the Phoenicians is an acceptance of one value of a timeline - and no others. You have no references, either. Who did the study? What are the parameters for the study? Was it peer reviewed? Here's 23 minutes I'll never get back.
The Hebrew history was verbal until the first inscription on Sinai. The 10 commandment stones and this New Beautiful Script (block style) was given on Sinai.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote in his personal Script. He did not write in a developing / primitive Pictograph Language. Paleo “Hebrew” teaches people that the Creator wrote in chicken scratch.
Where can i find the person you are speaking of? I love how that interpretation turned out. By the way, i have to point out how human it is of you (your character) to mock those with whom you disagree. Very scholarly.
My final comment is that you should not call on those to remove their work or books simply because they don’t agree with your view of Hebrew. There are Hebrew scholars who would disagree with you including Rabbis who teach on the topic. You could be seen as divisive. I personally don’t agree with all of it but I do see the connections with combining certain Hebrew letters into words through the pictograph form though the majority as been lost.
Dr. Garza, again, with all respect, I cannot agree with you. First, I am jealous for the Word of God and I see more and more people being deceived by this nonsense, starting to read things into the text that do not exist. Love for God's Word compels me to warn. Second, how would you feel if people began to buy your books and then say, "We have discovered what Dr. Garza really means," proceeding to put out videos attributing things to you you never said. Wouldn't you ask them to retract their errors, since they were falsely attributing things to you? Third, truth is often divisive. Shall we not speak the truth because it divides? Fourth, please investigate every serious scholarly lexicon of the Hebrew language, and where possible, investigate the Semitic cognates and the development of the words. In every case, you will not see a single respected Semitic reference work arguing for the alleged pictographic meanings. The fact that here and there, with some stretching, you can find a match of meanings is no different than using gematria on Shakespeare and discovering some interesting "insights." It's an exercise in fantasy, and nothing less. As someone who loves the Word as you do and gives careful attention to the original languages, you should second my call for people to repudiate their errors. Again, God bless!
ASKDrBrown I agree with your comments except for number three. Your truth on the Hebrew language is not set in stone and there are scholars who disagree with your conclusions. This is NOT salvation truth to divide but simply a scholarly disagreement that should not divide. You know this because you make this same point about non-essential doctrines. Please reconsider.
Dr. Garza, again, I'm not aware of a single scholar of biblical Hebrew -- they would have published scholarly articles in peer-reviewed articles or written respected volumes in the field -- who differs with a word of this. I stand behind that comment. Correct, it is NOT a matter of salvation; but making the Hebrew text open to fantasy is a serious error to be warned against. We must unify around the truth. Again, God bless, my brother!
*Are you saying* that the meaning of the original word has changed and has aquired a new meaning with the new unoriginal lanquage of today? And now you think the original meaning is *bogus*??
Hebrew was and is not English and to understand it you will have to be respectful in your quest. Letters aren't just letters they entail meaning in sounds and actions.
This topic needs to be explored more thoroughly in the development of the Torah linguistically. Was the Torah originally written in ketav Ivri? What language was spoken... written by Moshe? And if it was written in ketav Ivri, did the words have meaning pictorially? For myself, the jury is still out.
I have the exact same question 🙋♂️. I’ve always learned that our Hebrew books and texts are holy . If this isn’t the original language I am very confused .
Glad I came across this as I had just started looking into the ancient paleo- Hebrew alphabet. I can see why people get drawn into it. It’s ancient fascinating and romantic in a sense but I’ll go with Dr Brown on this who has studied ancient languages for decades, is a scholar and knows a whole lot more than I do. Thanks Dr Brown!
And you don't need a PhD to know it's completely bogus and false I studied the pictograph idea of Hebrew for about 15-20 minutes and I knew it was false if you really have the Holy Ghost you wouldn't follow after such fictions
You People are ridiculous. You haven't refuted anything Dr. Brown said, you just get angry and start spouting nonsense and ad hominem attacks on him. RIDICULOUS!
Worse than fantasy, I'd now put this in the realm of astrology & divination. It's ignorant superstition at best and deceitful eisogesis at worst. 😢 Thank you for the intellectually honest, academically rigorous analysis, Dr Brown.
How are you supposed to know what words mean if we dont understand them? When i read the bible, every word means something to me when i read the hebrew texts. Can you please explain Dr Brown how YOU interpret words and reading?
This is a really interesting video and I enjoy how the development of language from pictograph/hieroglyphics to the alphabet. Plus I just think it funny when Dr. Brown rants, so funny! This is cool!
Joshua A. Noll-Long Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
As someone who is passionate about studying the origins of Hebrew Root Words I think your tangent is unfounded. The points you make are obvious. It would be ridiculous to insert an ancient pictographic meaning onto a modern word. Studying the figurative pictures, of the original Hebrew Aleph-bet, only shows us its figurative Root meaning. These figurative Root pictures never replace a definition. Your example of the 2-letter root; Aleph and Mem, the Hebrew word for Mother, shows how little you know about the pictographic meaning of Water. When we learn to think figuratively we can see what Water does. It is a Liquid. It can be Chaotic. It can represent a Sea of people. It is what sustains our Life. Blood is a liquid. Glue is a binding liquid. But most importantly, we are born physically from the Water in the Womb of our Mother. This is the same figurative example our Messiah uses when He says I Am the (Spiritual) Life-giving Water.
The Hebrew ''ozi', translated into English as "my strength" in Isaiah 12:2, is spelled 'ayin-zayin-yod. The pictographs would be an eye, a metal farming implement (or weapon), and a hand/arm. Therefore according to the pictographic interpretation, ''ozi' has the meaning of skill with weapons. Even the concept of hand-eye coordination is there. That's just one example of how the pictographs make perfect sense, but I certainly am no authority. The fact that you are so passionate about refuting teachings about proto-Semitic pictographs makes me wary. It shows you are clearly biased and possibly promoting some fundamentalist Christian agenda. One thing for certain is that there are relationships between certain Hebrew words derived from the same root, and the ultimate truth of the Hebrew Bible is lost in translation. But then again you might consider me to be one of those individuals condemned to eternal torment in some imaginary afterlife "hell" because of my knowledge of Qabalistic and Hebraic truths that go against fundamentalist Christian dogmas. The Jewish Kabbalists also assign a certain meaning and number-value to each individual Hebrew letter, but those letters are actually of Babylonian origin. As I recall, the Samaritan Torah is written in Paleo-Hebrew, not Babylonian letters. In my opinion, the research you present in this video is biased.
I was looking at Phoenician handwriting and hebrew. Looked almost identical or 95% identical. Whose to say when an artifact or writing is found in Palestine, its not Phoenician but Hebrew?
@@shayalynn of cos iit makes perfect sense. if I say there is no ancient israel and whatever they found in so called "Israel" are nothing but phoenicians, no one can fault me.
@@IA100KPDT With that logic, let’s just say North Americans are really Canadians because of the closeness of location and because they share the same exact language. They made up their whole history for some reason, despite having close ties with Canada and despite all the archeological evidence we have of the existence of North Americans not being Canadians (as they are totally separate people living in different geographical places! And I know that it gets more complicated because various ethnicities live in those two geographical places as they are named based on geography and citizenship). Now I understand this is not the most perfect example, but *hopefully* you understand my point.
@@shayalynn I know what you mean except 3000 years ago, if u speak and write the same, u r most probably the same because concept of country was not born yet.
Dr. Brown, I love you and I believe you are a brother in Christ, but I know you are wrong about this particular issue because I know of two examples which I found myself in the text of the Bible itself that follows the picture ideas communicated by the 22 letters of Hebrew Alphabet in sequence. Genesis 6:1-22 follows the ideas communicated by the 22 Hebrew letters in sequence. Also, each chapter of the Book of the Revelation is connected in some way to the picture meanings of each of the 22 letters. I have two witnesses from the text.
OMG, why the nonsense about EGYPTIAN Hieroglyphs. The hypotheses concerns Proto-Canaanite carvings, that were based on some Egyptian hieroglyphs, but are sounds that do not resemble the Egyptian language, but the Canaanite language. However, the text you pinned here, shows you don't know anything of the hypothesis. So you can talk about your PHD and start namedropping, that doesn't mean anything. "How do you get from ox to master"? Really? That is ENGLISH, but we are talking about Canaanite where Aleph not just means ox, but the leading ox - for instance the ox who leads the herd or leads another less experienced ox when tied to a a yoke. That was important in a society where agriculture was important. The yoke or staff was the Lamed, which is the letter L. All leading characters in the Bible have a staff and even today the staff is used as a symbol of leadership, from the Queen's scepter to a baton of a general or conductor of an orchestra. M means water, but it is also the number 40. It is everywhere in the Biblical text. M also means chaos and this is evident in Mesopotamian myths as well. Besides, water is the only thing the god of the Bible did not create!. The role of the god in the bible was to make order of the chaos. That is what Genesis 1 is all about. You have to read the text in Hebrew and not in English, but even the Hebrew changed over time and this is obvious in the use of the letter Shin, which is also used as Sin, but was originally a different letter with another specific meaning. I studied this and though I am not religious and don't accept ANYTHING on believe (whence my remark about PHD's and namedropping) I decided that the hypothesis is quite consistent all over the Hebrew text. That is too remarkable to be a coincidence. I think that the writers of the Biblical text - the last rewritten version by Ezra and his contemparies - deliberately used the alphabet (both as letters and numbers) this way.
Linda NWFirefighter Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
The fundamental problem with 'barasheet' is that the hidden code would have zero meaning to the readers until the NT at which point the NT sets out the redemption story far clearer than the hidden code. We don't need the hidden code, it serves absolutely no purpose.
Thanks Dr Brown, about time someone finally spoke out about this fantasy that glorifies these teachers as they play "wannabe scholars." One thing that troubles me is that they decode these words from unsure letter meanings. Different scholars have different interpretations. The waw has been said to mean nail but a Hebrew scholar in a book I read recently believes it was a hook in reference to hanging the temple curtains. The Tau meaning "goat" and not mark. Who knows. How can one decode when you don't even know if you got the decoder keys right?
Appreciated the video, but in all fairness… you can do the exact same thing with the whole Bible if you don’t have a coherent hermeneutic. How familiar are you with the Kabbalah tradition and Mashal in general?
And yet the same letters can have a numeric value. So are they numbers or letters? *BOTH* and while the letter have a phonetic value, it has a numeric value, it has a pictographic value, it has a grammatical value much like the s is a suffix for plural. I have no idea why he is doing this? Because He is against Kabbalah? You can be against Kabbalah and still understand that these letters have importance beyond the phonetic @ASKDrBrown
He's over the top in his 'need' to convince. His argument should rely objective evidence rather than an overly expressive emotional plea. Even the video thumbnail is attempting to convince and sway opinion before evidence is given. A sign of a weak argument is forthcoming. Hebrew is a semitic (priestly) language and is not in the same group like indo-european languages like Babylonian, Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, etc. The kabbalistic tradition uses the Hebrew otiot ("signs' they are properly called otiot and are not called letters or characters). The otiot are used as meditational devices in kabbalah since before The Bahir and The Sefer Yetzirah. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsberg has written a book exclusively on the meanings of the otiot as well as other rabbis. There are also other books such as those written by Paul Foster Case. The problem is that people in the secular materialist world thinking that everything can be approached from an academic point of view. These probably thought they were teaching Hebrew when they themselves got schooled by students who were versed in the Secret Wisdom of Israel and knew the esoteric meanings of the otiot. And so embarrassed they thought they needed to make video discrediting the ancient connection between the pictographic meanings and the Ashurit kitvei or Bavli square script. Hebrew otiot do not compare to Roman letters.
Dr. Brown: "Pictographs had meaning." but "Pictographs don't have meaning." so "You're making it up." Ancient language buffs: "Pictographs had meaning, let's look at them. That's interesting."
By the way, Ben Yehuda’s pocket Hebrew English dictionary has the pictographs for every Hebrew letter and it’s association with them. Was he wrong too?
I have the complete Ben Yehuda multi-volume dictionary, as I imagine you have. Are you telling me that he derives definitions of words from the original pictographs? We all know where the letters came from, as this video documents. But I'd love to see examples where he gets definitions of words from pictographs. I take it that's your point when you ask, "Was he wrong?" Also, re: a word like "father" in Hebrew is almost universally agreed to be an onomatopoeic word. it is NOT derived from pictographic meanings.
ASKDrBrown First, I do have the volumes. Second, I’m referring to the fact that they show the pictograph like “tav” which is a picture of a cross and means in Hebrew “mark” or “sign” shown in Ezekiel 9. Finally, “Father” is an English abstract concept not found in Hebrew. “Ab” is based on a more concrete meaning based on the pictograph script according to Dr.Ben Gigi. Is he wrong and you are right? He is fluent in Hebrew and a Hebrew scholar. He didn’t originally agree with the idea but changed his views when challenged by Dr.Seekins. Can you explain their errors? Both are credible.
+DrAlGazra You're not understanding this. Nobody is denying the pictographs. The point is that an individual word formed from an alphabet, isn't read like pictographs.
First, if you have the volumes, you know there is no example in his dictionary where he derives THE MEANING OF A WORD from the original pictographs. Again, everyone knows this. It's not rocket science. Second, yes, we understand the original meaning of the tav, but it does NOT carry that meaning throughout the Hebrew vocabulary that uses that letter. Since you know Hebrew well, just think of the utter absurdity of conjugating imperfect female verbal forms starting with the tav. It does NOT have a pictographic meaning in the words. Third, to my knowledge, Dr. Seekings has no related academic credentials to back his work, and a simple reading through any one verse of the Bible, using the alleged pictographic meaning of the letters, results in sheer nonsense. I'm truly baffled that anyone with knowledge of how languages and alphabets would question this for a split second. Fourth, the Hebrew word for "father" is common in the Semitic languages, and surely, if you look in the Akkadian, there's no pictographic meaning of the alleged "strength" and "house" as is alleged in the Hebrew. It's a common Semitic word because it's probably one of the first sounds a baby can make. Anyway, I interact with you here out of respect, knowing you're a serious student of the Word and the original languages. (As you know, I can't normally interact in the comments sections to our materials.) So, my sense of astonishment and exasperation is not based on lack of respect for your scholarship -- quite the opposite -- but this subject is hardly worthy of debate. God bless, my brother!
Ashkanaz Jewish alphabet with 4 new letters changes everything and caused great loss of options which were there in Paleo Hebrew language. You took a picture and come up with letter leaving out other picture options ending up loosing a lot of the picture
This is really well argued. To contrast a commenter below, paleo-Hebrew is indeed being taught these days, I was taught the aleph-bet in 3 stages, beginning with pictograph, then middle script, then modern aramaic script. For example, 11:12 the Sinai script, that's how I learned aleph before I ever saw a single bit of modern Hebrew. So, what I will say is that this isn't solely a phenomenon of evangelicals on the internet, in my introductory Hebrew textbook, the pictographs are present. I think Dr. Brown refuted this and I'm convinced he's right, but this way of thinking has gotten further than evangelical circles and is definitely in colleges & seminaries. Also: Not really sure what all the comments about this being "off-putting" because of tone are about. This is the study of semitic languages, not the study of French or some other high-end wine drinking language. This is the earthy stuff, it gets rough sometimes!
@ASKDrBrown: I was thinking how to explain this more plainly. Imagine a comic book, it says that Superman flew and there is a picture of Superman flying. We cannot take the words, Superman, and divide the words up by their letters and try to take the picture drawn and assign a bit of the picture to each letter, trying to make each letter a small bit of the picture. This is not how alphabets work. I think this is a very easy explanation.
@Mashariel Actually, there are other Semitic languages that have similar structure. No one pays those languages much mind it this respect because they don't have a Bible.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote in his personal Script. He did not write in a developing / primitive Pictograph Language. You are teaching people that the Creator wrote in chicken scratch.
You are right, this doesn't work in reverse. But if your language calls this man s+u+p+e+r+m+a+n because this is the meaning of each sound in that word, then you now want to convey that in writing and need to come up with a written form for each sound. In the same way Chemistry calls Water H2O and there is no other material in the universe that can mean H2O, simply because the distinct properties of 2 atoms of Hydrogen and 1 atom of Oxygen bound together. The pictures are just the letter H, the number 2 and the letter O, but the elements were there long before you assigned 'pictures' to them
This dude is confusing himself. How do we depict these hydrographic then??? I’m lost the symbols clearly mean what they are a man with his hands raise means behold or look , doesn’t take a scientist to ufigyre that out🤦🏾♂️
When the most high gave moses the ten words did he use egyptian or would he use a set apart language consisting of 22 characters like our sets of 22 chromosomes
This is correct as the “Hieroglyphs” in Egypt are actually called “Nsibidi” which was created by Igbos who are ancient Sumerians...”Annunachi” is ancient Ndi-Igbo language: “Anu una” is “bird animal” and “chi” is “God”. It means “Bird animal of God” which means “messenger of God” because birds were likened to messengers. That’s why In Egypt they drew Man-figures with Bird heads on them...Ndi Igbos are the Annuachi and are the messengers of God on 🌍...majority of #ADOS in America where taken as slaves from Igbo-land, Bight of BiAfara Nigeria. This is why many Blacks were great inventors with many inventions. Igbos hear directly from God (ChiUkwu) like NnaOha (Noah) did when he built the Ark. The colonizers spelled most of Igbo language wrong in translations and could not pronounce our sounds...”Nna” is “Father” and “Oha” is “The people” so “NnaOha” = “Father of all the People” in Ndi-Igbo language which comes from Nsibidi. This is why Igbo language is expressive and has infinite absolutes because it is a complete language. Research the Igbo language and start looking into SouthEastern Nigeria
The drawing of humans with birds heard is not he only one there so many composites.. for example the Sphinx is a lion... Thot at times is a monkey or Baboon, etc.. THESE are TOTEMIC still prevalent among Bantus today...
The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also spelt Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet (P-H), was the script used in the historic kingdoms of Israel and Judah by Israelites. It is variant of the Phoenician alphabet[1] (abjad) of 22 (consonantal) letters. P-H was coined by Solomon Birnbaum in 1954; writing, "To apply the term Phoenician to the script of the Hebrews is hardly suitable".[2] Archeology dates usage of P-H for writing the Hebrew language to the 10th century BCE.[3] By the 5th century BCE (with the Hebrew Jews exiled in the diaspora) P-H was subsumed by the Imperial Aramaic abjad with little remnant -- the Aramaic sharing a common protolanguage with a simpler font. The present Jewish "square-script" Hebrew aleph beit abjad evolved from the Aramaic. Samaritans (population fewer than 1000) use a P-H abjad derivative, known as the Samaritan alphabet. Usage of P-H is negligible nowadays but it survives in nostalgia (see the ₪1 coin and the logo of the Israeli town Nahariyah). Co
Thank you for this video Dr Brown. First I thought that you were overreacting, or chasing shadows. I have heard the "name of God means: behold, hand, behold, nail" but that's the extent of it (though, I definitely agree that it's a bit silly although I figured it's not harmful). But judging from the comments (that might be something not worth doing on youtube) there is certainly a need to explain this. The people of this day seems to be into all kind of "mystical revelation". Rom 1:18-19 "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them." There is enough truth in the scriptures for a lifetime. We don't need to change the truth about God for a lie. I'm certainly glad that God in his wisdom decided to make his words simple and "reveal them to little children".
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
There is plenty of "mysticism" and "revelation" in the Hebrew bible and by its derivation the "Christian bible". Even though the Old Testament is actually different than the Hebrew bible. But either way, the "mysticism" that is actually in the Hebrew bible is based on numerology, geometry, basic symbolism and metaphor and allegory. So for instance, the 4 standards of the 4 tribes "encircling" the tend of the Ark of the Covenant, represent the 4 fixed zodiacs and cardinal directions. Judah the lion and the east, or rising sun. Reuben, the face of man, or Aquarius, or the west and setting sun (First (born) becomes last). Ephraim or the Ox/Calf, or the south and Taurus, and then tribe of Dan or "the flying eagle", or North and "scorpio", represented by scorpion or "eagle". These 4 guard the "inner sanctum". Ok. So this symbolism can be found throughout the Hebrew bible in many different variations, but it's always these 4. Or the tetrad. Or geometrically, the "square". The "square" is the 4th part of the circle. To "wholeness". It's describing basic esoteric practices, that can be found in the Pythagorean school, Hinduism, Buddhism, Egyptian cosmology etc... And Freemasonry, which took it's symbolism directly from the Hebrew bible and Christian bible, separately. But these are all describing the same thing. 12 tribes, like 12 signs of the zodiac, like 12 gates of Egyptian underworld, like 12 gates of heaven. Or like the "Chakras". In Kabbalah, the tree of life, 10 nodes, 1 crown and the 12th is unity I believe from memory. There is TONS of this in the Hebrew bible. Which is what Kabbalah tries to teach. But really, it's in every major religion. It's the entire point of "Revelations" in Christianity, not to be taken literally, but it's telling you how to orient yourself inward for the world. Or "ego death" and the stages of life. Which is why you aren't supposed to read Kabbalah until you are like 40 or 42. Which is why the Freemason founding fathers made the rule you cant be President until like 40 or whatever it is. Because at that age, theoretically, you have gone through the selfish phases of life, focused on yourself, your family and hopefully your children. Then by 40, well, at least back in the day, your children would have been grown up. So that is around the age when you stop focusing on yourself, orient yourself towards selflessness for the "world". Anyway, there is a lot of this and it would take a great deal of time. Manly P Hall wrote a great deal about these things, he's got some amazing books and talks that can be found online. Freemasonry teaches the same thing, using different symbolism depending on what form of Masonry. All the Egyptian cosmology, it's in the Vedas in Hinduism and Buddhist "mysticism". There is nothing actually supernatural going on and it's not about the supernatural. It's very much about the natural, the state of our emotions, our body-mind-soul connection and it's mostly about DOING THINGS in life, not waiting for death. Which is what pretty much every CHristian gets wrong about "Revelations". Revelations is literally saying, don't wait for the End times because you might be waiting forever. Instead find peace while you are alive and the "mysticism" of how to do that is strewn throughout the text of Revelations, using numbers and symbolism. "Face of the lion, face of the calf, the face of the man and flying eagle" again. That is all very much IN the Hebrew bible and the Christian bible. But people waiting for "prophecy" and "end times" and "the messiah" are actually interpreting it the complete OPPOSITE of what it's actually saying. So like, the end times is a ridiculous scenario, because it's never supposed to happen. It's saying that people only turn to god when they are faced with their own demise, their own ego death. And in normal life, those ills that can be derived from the 4 horsemen, or "Satan's wrath", are the normal things that turn people towards god. But the only way EVERYONE, the whole world, will turn to god, is if the whole world is faced with their own demise. Which only God knows when that will happen. And "God's wrath" comes in the form of cataclysm, earthquake, volcano, asteroid etc.. The BIG stuff. And since we can't predict those things, there's no point "waiting for them". "Peace on earth" only comes by orientating yourself inward, in "love". "Love is God's law". "Eternal peace" only comes through death. That's all that "Yeshua" guy was on about. Saul of Tarsus and the Romans totally took it literally though, thereby distorting the true meaning. Which is why Constantine had most of the original Yeshua sect texts destroyed when the Christian bible was created by the Roman Empire, for Roman, juxtaposing Abrahamic mythos over Greco-Roman paganism. Yeshua was just saying, the physical temple doesn't matter, focus on the inner temple. The reason only one prophecy in the Hebrew bible is unfulfilled, the messianic prophecy and the rebuilding of the temple, is because it is NEVER supposed to be fulfilled. If it were fulfilled, people would again be looking outwardly for answers rather than inwardly. The "rebuilding of the temple" is meant to represent "rebuilding yourself" or again, "orienting yourself inward to hear God's voice" ie, inner consciousness. Which can only be done with clarity if you are oriented correctly. Otherwise those same "energies" can lead down terrible paths and terrible roads. Anyway, I hope that helps a bit. It's all in the text. And yes, it's ACTUALLY there.
If the pictograms became sounds and then much later words were formulated, you would have a logical point. As your example, the name Brown has no meaning brought from the pictograms but words that were invented when the symbols had pictographic and phonetic meaning would logically been made up from pictographic meanings. If you wanted a word for fire you might put together the idea of strong destruction, (ESH) maybe, cutting is the closest you can get to destruction but the combination of pictograms gives something of a meaning to the people who invented the word to convey an idea. Centuries later, the pictographic meaning has been forgotten and people start claiming it never had any! The idea has been destroyed and all you have left is ash.
Better not tell the kabbalist in isreal. The devote hundreds of volumes dedicated to just the aleph alone. As well as the Chinese. Huston we have a problem.
Is It 2 Salty 4U Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
I like your comment about the Kabbalists but the comment about Chinese is unfair. Chinese characters are not an alphabet. This person is just arguing that the script used in the Bible is simply an alphabet and nothing more. Chinese script has never been an alphabet.
Of course it is an issue now because the true children are reclaiming their stuff! This stuff is all up and through the Kabbalah but they never had a problem with it. I am willing to bet his mother is from those people over there...@Is It 2 Salty 4U yeah it is seasoned just right for me but look, it is too salty 🧂 for them though lol 😝
Both phoenicians and hebrew writting were just about the same... They both shared cannanite land. The israelites all came from one man's loins.... Jacob Aka ISRAEL. The 12 tribes They multiplied. They stuck together Except for the tribe of Dan... Danites could possibly be the Danaoi mentioned in the iliads of homer Or the sea people. Anyway, they found inscriptions of those symbols in crete... Thats all
Class Is In Session!!! Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
No i think the guy is exactly correct in everything he said. Here is a bit of proof for you that will verify what he said. Old norse Futhark is a runic alphabet used in northern Europe Europe and England. They retained the idea that letters had a meaning from a pictograph and it was a deep rich tradition that had a poem for EACH LETTER. It gave the name its meaning and explanation in a poem. It had set each lettet in a specific line with a numerical value as well. Funny thing that if Hebrew had any hidden meanings it would have had all that with it like Futhark. Since it doesnt and noone taught that to the kids as they were learning to write i doubt any such thing went on. In my opinion this is so close to the norse futhark which was also a MAGICAL TOOL TO CAST SPELLS AND DIVINE THE FUTURE THAT I THINK HE IS COPYING THE FUTHARK AND CLAIMING IT TO BE A TRUE THING IN HEBREW. Its way too identical to the futhark for him to have not been influenced.
i guess i consider your attitude toward those who like the Paleo-Hebrew picture meanings. I enjoyed seeing you during the Brownsville revival many times Dr. Brown where the Holy Spirit worked in you in humility and repentance as He did with me. You even taught my children at the Brownsville college and sent them as missionaries to China-thank you for your part in that. When you speak from the humility of Yahusha's heart your words are better received. Some comments have said I you come across as one with much learning and scholarly without regard to the opinion of others. Not as a humble servant of the Most High. Always consider that you don't see everything the same way others do. The journey someone has taken to get where they are at in Yahuah is most likely not like yours or mine. If you are trying to destroy heresy I say go for it-but these Paleo-Hebrew pictograph studies have not been based in Heresy or Mysticism from my experience-but ones that have drawn me closer to Elohim. And the Spirit of truth will lead you into all truth.
Galatians 6 instructs us to correct one another gently. Dr Brown, I appreciate your studies and devotion to revealing the truth, but the arrogant and condescending way you treat anyone who doesn't believe exactly as you do is heart breaking. It is this lack of loving kindness that has led to many divisions in the Church, and I assure you that more people are turned off by your poor people skills than are reached by your reasoning. As for the topic at hand, I've seen evidence to suggest that both sides have merit. The truth is, we don't have enough information to really know how the paleo Hebrew began or evolved. You make your claims based on other ancient languages, and while I suppose that's reasonable, it's certainly not definitive. While it seems there is some truth to the pictures being used to construct ancient words, I actually agree that when people try to do this today, they can read anything they want into it, as there is no definite baseline left for us to compare. However, if people's faith in the text is strengthened by comparing it to ancient symbols, and they are not changing the truth that is revealed in the text, I hardly see why they should be attacked or condemned for their belief. I agree that some of these folks take it way too far and I think most everyone recognizes that. It appears that you are fighting against those who are proclaiming the gospel, simply because you don't like the way they are presenting it. I would encourage you to simply teach the gospel and let the Holy Spirit defend the Word. I am certain your method has reached many, but I am greatful that in God's wisdom, other people speak with less (harshness?) If that's even a word. Lol. If not, I would have closed off to what you teach immediately. I'm not trying to be overly critical of you, as I'm sure I come off that way to some myself. Hope it helps.
Which alphabet developed first, the Aramaic or the Hebrew block letters? I know the Paleo Hebrew preceded both, at least I assume that, but once the letters became more block-like, was the Aramaic influenced by the Hebrew Ashuris letters or the other way around?
Hey folks, I could give endless examples of how completely artificial and bogus this alleged pictographic meaning of Hebrew is, but for those who say Aleph means ox or master or leader, how did you get from ox to master? Which ancient pictograph told you that? If you say, well the Hebrew for father is ox+house, which you interpret to mean "master of the house" (again, completely gratuitously), then how about mother, which is ox+water (or, chaos), according to those who argue for a pictographic meaning. So, the mother is the chaos leader? What complete nonsense! And on and on it goes. It is out of love for God and love for the Word and love for the truth that we took the time to do this video. We strongly encourage you to be willing to throw out your pet theories and study things in depth. For every one alleged example where you think there's some special meaning in the letters, there are ten (or 100) where it doesn't work. This is fiction, friends, and nothing less. That's why some have gotten so nasty in their responses that we actually had to block some comments already. They are more committed to these fanciful theories then to simple biblical truth. May the Lord give His people the humility to study, learn, and discard error. We're here to help! (Although I hardly ever post comments to our videos, I truly wish I could respond to everyone who posts here. Unfortunately, that's not possible, but if you'll go through the video until it makes sense, then check out some good scholarly books on the history of writing and the history of the alphabet, things should be clear.) God bless!
Amen! And Amen to the love of God, love for his Word and love for the Truth! :-)))
As to mother she is the strong water, so what does that mean? What could strong water have to do with mother? What if someone were in the desert and came to an oasis, would that not be strong water? Now a mother could be strong chaos and we see that even today where some are just that. Also mother can be seen as one who is strong in what brings forth life, for water is needed for life and is where life does come. Where is an embryo incubated? Is it in air or is it in water? Even seeds need water to spring forth. So a mother is strong water and aleph, mem, nun means faith yet the word picture is of a mother's life. How hard is that and what is so mystical of that? What a good description of faith.
We all need humility and we do need to discard that which does not agree with the Word of Elohim, but we also need to be careful we don't limit Elohim's Word.
Wow. Some cases really seem irrecoverable, haha...
Michael James, you are engaging in an act of spiritual fantasy, not one of coming to the Word in a childlike way. Does it not trouble you that you reading things into God's Word that He did not put there, things which cannot be empirically checked and are only subject to the limitations of your own mind? It is, in fact, an unspiritual thing to do, since it is saying that what our loving Father wonderfully spoke is not enough for us. It's also saying that we're getitng insights into the Word beyond what Jesus and the prophets and apostles received. That too is unspiritual and dangerous. So, in love, I urge you to step back and go to the Lord in humility rather than accuse others of not having a childlike faith. (I can't get into extended interaction here, but I hope you're open to truth.)
ASKDrBrown Thank you for helping me to answer this.
Paleo-hebrew is that pure tongue.
THE CREATORS HANDWRITING
The Scriptures say God wrote The Book of Life and the 10 Commandments in His own unique handwriting. How could any logical person believe God wrote in chicken-scratch is beyond me. The names in the Book of Life are not in a script developed by mankind like the primitive pictographs of Paleo and cave drawings.
Exodus 32:16
והלחת מעשה אלהים המה והמכתב מכתב אלהים
Translation:” The Tablets the handiwork of God they were and the script, the script of God”.
“THE SCRIPT OF GOD” in this passage is obvious not allowing credit to a writing developed by mankind.
Exodus 32:32
לב ועתה אם-תשא חטאתם ואם-אין מחני נא מספרך אשר כתבת:
Translation: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which you have written.
Exodus 34:27
ויאמר יהוה אל-משה כתב-לן את-הדברים האלה
Translation: Hashem said to Moses, Write for yourself these (specific) words.
This was NOT a language developed by men from primitive pictographs. This was a new (to us) holy language given by the Creator in its complete form. Torah specifically makes an issue that this script was extremely unique and NOT the existing Paleo stick figures of the time. Elohime did not write in chicken scratch.
May the Paleo community be know as an anti-Semitic heresy who’s aim is to persecute Israel who is the TRUE KEEPER OF TORAH.
Gods handwriting is New (to us) and not the existing script of the time (Paleo) that was already being used and man made.
Ex 32:18 “vitn” ויתן the first word means “He Gave”. This is a new gift. Torah is infinitely calculated and this is no mistake to show us that this was a new Writing “by the finger of God”
It’s like the whole paleo community totally disregards reading the Torah to verify their teachings..... or, I submit once again, THAT THEY HAVE NO HEBREW TEACHERS to properly teach them Torah and for that matter, the entirety of all our scriptures and foundations.
They claim to be Israel and fight over what tribe they are in and deny the Redemption paid for by Yeshua Hamassiah to adopt us into His home and above every tribe.
Glory to God through the Son and bless His Holy Name forever and ever. Amen.
You black Hebrew Israelites....are wicked and need to repent.
@@TheShalomPeace what about the script in the Torah scroll ktav ashuri is that the script that Yehovah wrote in the stone tablets and Instructed Moses to write in the first Torah scroll?
This video made me double down 😂 hes just whining about double meanings.
The same pictograph meanings was also past down from the post babylonian script (the more modern verison) but its not as obvious.
Mr. Brown, Hebrew, true Paleo Hebrew, is a concrete language that has non-abstract meanings and conveyances. I do not hold a degree in Paleo Hebrew, but from what I am speaking and using in my household, I communicate just fine. It's funny how people today use Aramaic as a replacement for Paleo, calling it "Modern Hebrew." That's the real nonsense. This is not accurate about true Ancient Paleo Hebrew!
@Humble Servant quick question, where can I download a Middle Hebrew font (paleo-Hebrew)? How did you get yours to be supported by Safari (or whatever internet browser) and write right-to-left? 😁
For those that have been Lead by the Hand by God/Elohim/Yahweh alone to study HIS WORD in a Loving LIGHT filled WAY, remain Steadfast. His Yoke is easy, His burden is LIGHT. Darkness cannot comprehend the LIGHT.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. It was not a primitive picture language. And It was not in chicken scratch.
You got it all blessed and correctly
@MsPositive You got it! The Strong Shepherd/Leader Reveals His Work on the Waters. Nobody can steal what the Hand Reveals and what the Nail reveals to you. Blessings!
Actually, the pictographic meanings do make a lot of sense. Regarding "father"; ox is the one at the forefront with the heavy yoke, the strong one who works the fields. Ox+house could be illustrative of the father, the strong one who works for and sustains the household, a leader. "Mother" doesn't mean chaos, as the letter mem doesn't exclusively symbolize chaos but can simply be 'water'. Aleph+Mem could simply be render as one with strength/power in water, i.e. one who brings forth life through the waters. Interestingly, mem also has a numerical value of 40, the number of weeks of the gestation period in a woman's (water-filled) womb. If you're not into the plaeo-Hebrew symbolism, that's fine. But to go on such a rant about how bogus and insane it all is, and how we're all being decieved.... is just odd. Lot more important issues to talk about. You're drowning in a cup of 'water' on this one.
Actually, if you'll sample 1,000 biblical Hebrew words or just read through any one verse, you'll see that for every alleged pictographic meaning that works, 100 do not work. The fact you can defend this indicates you don't understand why we took so much time to expose this serious and growing deception. We only presented facts here; no speculation.
What "deception"? What conspiracy is going on here behind the scenes that's somehow leading so many astray? What is this great threat to the christian world that you're exposing??? The Bible is FULL of symbolisms. Almost everything has some type of symbolism to it. I could give you a 100 reasons why Jesus isn't a "lamb", isn't a "door", isn't "bread", isn't a "vine". I mean, seriously, how insane and ridiculous is it that a vine represents a living person?! People aren't green. Vines don't have two eyes, (and 98 more reasons). RIght? You're doing exactly what the rabbis do. All the symbolism of old testament tabernacle/temples and their elements, animal sacrifices and rituals that point to Jesus, thrown out the window, each with a 100 reasons why they aren't or can't be, symbolic of Jesus. The pictograph meaning of the Hebrew ancient alphabet makes PERFECT sense as continues with this biblical tradition of heavily using symbolism. Again, this whole rant is just odd. If you don't like the idea of pictographs, that's perfectly fine! But hold your peace instead of accusing others of being insane.
So, if I read meanings into every one of your words to end up with a message that you never intended to convey, then claim you secretly placed it there, that is not wrong? And when we do it with God's Word, that is not deception? Again, we can't interact further here, but you do well to watch again with an open heart and mind. The truth is quite liberating. :) (This will be my last comment in response)
Fair enough. Thanks for the chat. Long-time follower, btw. Love your material (except this one, of course.) God bless!
God bless!
Seems like Dr. Brown is missing the point. I don't think anyone is saying that these pictographs should be used to determine the meaning of the letters of our modern languages. To me it just shows how the Word of God could have a level of revelation in the visual expression of the letters and words they form. It in no way establishes or changes any theological truths. It's just an interesting study to get some insight to how the ancients would have understood it. He makes it seem like this is some kind of theological heresy! Probably not entirely reliable, but nonsense, really?
Larry, thanks for your comment, but no, I'm not missing the point at all. First, people today are misusing the Hebrew text and coming up with all kinds of meanings that are not there. Second, the ancient Hebrews did NOT understand the letters as pictographs. That's the whole purpose of an alphabet. So, yes, when people are creating meanings out of thin air, misusing the biblical text, that is nonsense and it is dangerous (and it's totally unreliable).
I certainly understand your concern for the misuse of the Hebrew language by people, however it doesn't dismiss the idea that the pictographs could have been God's way of adding another dimension of truth to His Word. Of course your point that the changes that have occurred over time make it almost impossible to get those meanings with today's alphabet, however it doesn't dismiss the "possibility" there could be some divine design to it. I though your example that your name "Brown" would also have to follow this concept for it to be legitimate was somewhat of a straw man argument. It sounds like you are saying the pictographs only have relevance to the sound of the first letter of the word that describes the picture. Not sure how you could confirm this was the purpose determined for a language almost 4,000 years ago. I don't think it would have to work for an entire language in order to be true. It could only be unique to the biblical text. Certainly all ancient texts don't use typology to the degree that the Bible does, but that doesn't make typology nonsense. Most people see typology as a unique feature of God's way to communicate His truth to us, even though some people take it too far. I like a lot of your work, but was a little surprise of your total dismissal of the "possibility" of this idea.
Last comment: No sir, the pictographs do NOT add another dimension of truth to His Word. They add bogus interpretations and mass confusion and error. There's a good reason I don't know a single, reputable Hebrew scholar in the world who supports this stuff.
Sometimes people who do biblical work on a scholarly level are offended when something is discovered concerning their subject outside the scope of their expertise. This idea has nothing to do with scholarship or knowing the Hebrew language on that level. It could simply be something God chose to conceal in the design of His word. Again, you might be right on whether it is legitimate or not, but what Hebrew scholars say about it is not the determining factor as to its credibility. Christians are often challenged on the legitimacy of prophecy by skeptics for looking back after something has been fulfilled and saying look how God predicted it. So this concept could be guilty of the same thing, but that doesn't mean it has no merit whatsoever. Hebrew scholars are a great resource for anyone trying to understand the ancient language, however their expertise is only the language itself, not how God could choose to hide truth in it. I would challenge ANYONE on the ability to understand Jesus from the Old Testament before the New Testament revelation we have today. It has nothing to do with a high level of education. Scholars disagree on doctrine all the time with mutually exclusive positions, demonstrating this point. You can be entirely wrong on a subject, even as a scholar. Your video alone doesn't give sufficient evidence to totally dismiss this concept. Perhaps you could do a follow up video with more concrete evidence given the volume of videos on TH-cam concerning this idea and your vehement opposition to it. Thanks for your responses.
@@larrystewart6798 Square-Script is properly called Babylonian Aramaic:
"...the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified." (Revelation 11,8)
Do you hold to the same assumptions regarding Chinese language? And please acknowledge these are assumptions. From what I watched, you seem to use an assumption to argue an assumption. A more honest approach would allow for the possibility the Paleo Hebrew ALSO has symbolic meaning. My opinion is that your video here was full of editorializing comments, filled with emotional reaction. That is neither an honest scholarly review nor well mannered. If this is your quoted PhD talking, you may want to seek out a refund.
You’re not listening.
Agreed. I wonder if Dr Brown has read work from real specialists in the field such as Mendenhall and Colless for example. Science is always evolving and improving and I totally agree that the assumptions he makes here are nothing more than assumptions, even though they might be shared by top scholars. Science is not a consensus set in stone but rather an ongoing debate of ideas and one should remain humble and open to learn more on this very complex world of ours.
According to B. Colless who expanded on the work of Mendenhall the proto-sinaitic/canaanite characters that predated paleo-hebrew could sound a letter, a syllable or actually represent the complete word associated to that letter (representing phonograms, syllabograms and also logograms and rebograms). This ability was retained by paleo-hebrew as a heritage and looking at the actual evidence from this hypothesis it is not unfunded at all and this possibility should not be dismissed despite standardization of writing around the Xth century BC. This last event does not contradict the hypothesis presented by the Mendenhall-Colless position and the assumptions of Dr. Brown seem to ignore this possibility held by a specialist and a prominent scholar in the actual field that interests us.
👏
Apparently he’s a time traveler too.
I’ve done a few paleo word studies on the name Yeshua, love and some others. To me, it reveals the heart of Abba. Word studies on the name meanings in the lineages have beautiful meanings as well.
Hebrew Word Pictures must agree with scripture! That makes the difference! You can't read just anything you want!!!
Well said. This type of knowledge should only be observed when you have a strong foundational understanding of scripture. The paleo script should not dictate any truth as the context of bible scripture is more authoritative. Nevertheless, the paleo hebrew can still be appreciated as it does support scripture contrary to the beliefs of Dr.Brown.
How could y’all say the ancient text wouldn’t be right but the Bible translated so many times is right smh if salvation is that important learn the Hebrew the Israelites were speaking seek do as much as it takes the god of this earth is Satan don’t be deceived when you put the most high first he will show you what to do!!
@Darin Johnson I knew it would come out sooner or later. Listen to this very carefully. Blacks come from Africa. They are NOT the True Hebrews. Stop with the self hate and accept the skin God has given you. It's so sad to see black folks claim this year to be the real Native Americans then next year the real Latinos then after that the True Hebrews. Accept what you are and be thankful you were given life
nofd1977 blacks do not come from Africa. That’s why Africans don’t like African Americans. Negro in African means “foreigners”
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
I think what I am witnessing here is men being wise in their own eyes as it is written. Do not be dismayed at evildoers. Truth will be revealed no matter what false teachings are out there. What is hidden will be revealed despite the agendas to prove or disprove.
May YHVH continue to speak to His people and as we return May we see all that was hidden. Amein.
Only Jesus saves, rmember unsaved people also believe in YHVH
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
He is a canaanite-jew word smithie. A deceiver. A wolf in the clothing of a "Christian" sheep.
@@LONGMAN772
Jesus is a slave ship name not the Messiah name
The Messiah real name is IEUESHUO in Ancient Hebrew
@@michaeln8925, according to the GHABARAY HEBREW teachers, the ONLY TRUE name for GOD, is YA'OH...
so they say...
I dont know what to make of it ?
Sir? You didn't even deal with the paelo-Hebrew script. What is this video actually about?
THE CREATORS HANDWRITING
The Scriptures say God wrote The Book of Life and the 10 Commandments in His own unique handwriting. How could any logical person believe God wrote in chicken-scratch is beyond me. The names in the Book of Life are not in a script developed by mankind like the primitive pictographs of Paleo and cave drawings.
Exodus 32:16
והלחת מעשה אלהים המה והמכתב מכתב אלהים
Translation:” The Tablets the handiwork of God they were and the script, the script of God”.
“THE SCRIPT OF GOD” in this passage is obvious not allowing credit to a writing developed by mankind.
Exodus 32:32
לב ועתה אם-תשא חטאתם ואם-אין מחני נא מספרך אשר כתבת:
Translation: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which you have written.
Exodus 34:27
ויאמר יהוה אל-משה כתב-לן את-הדברים האלה
Translation: Hashem said to Moses, Write for yourself these (specific) words.
This was NOT a language developed by men from primitive pictographs. This was a new (to us) holy language given by the Creator in its complete form. Torah specifically makes an issue that this script was extremely unique and NOT the existing Paleo stick figures of the time. Elohime did not write in chicken scratch.
May the Paleo community be know as an anti-Semitic heresy who’s aim is to persecute Israel who is the TRUE KEEPER OF TORAH.
Gods handwriting is New (to us) and not the existing script of the time (Paleo) that was already being used and man made.
Ex 32:18 “vitn” ויתן the first word means “He Gave”. This is a new gift. Torah is infinitely calculated and this is no mistake to show us that this was a new Writing “by the finger of God”
It’s like the whole paleo community totally disregards reading the Torah to verify their teachings..... or, I submit once again, THAT THEY HAVE NO HEBREW TEACHERS to properly teach them Torah and for that matter, the entirety of all our scriptures and foundations.
They claim to be Israel and fight over what tribe they are in and deny the Redemption paid for by Yeshua Hamassiah to adopt us into His home and above every tribe.
Glory to God through the Son and bless His Holy Name forever and ever. Amen.
@@TheShalomPeace Square-Script is properly called Babylonian Aramaic:
"...the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified." (Revelation 11,8)
Scrambling to maintain the lies
@@TheShalomPeace the scriptures are lying.
@@YouGotOptions2 LMAO
now paleo hebrew supporter is not believing in scripture anymore?
Much in God's Word can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit. I studied under eminent Professors at university. They took great delight in 'disproving' the Word of God. This appealed to their academic pride. Likewise, with the deeper things of the Lord you can only perceive them through the power of the Holy Spirit who is the revealer of all things. In my over 30 year journey with the Lord and studying His Word I came more and more to understand how the Hebrew language is a perfect language Zephaniah 3:9 and could only have been written by God Himself. Just His name, the tetragrammaton reveals so much. This name hung above Yeshua on the cross ✝️ and literally means 'Hand of grace nailed in grace'. However, you need revelation of the Holy Spirit to see the meaning of each letter in the context of the whole word and its awesome authority, power and significance. Sadly, all my professors were blinded by their academic pride and they could not see the truth in the divinely inspired Word of God and His perfect language.
יהוה
I actually bought one of these books, and the author makes claims that aren't supported by Scripture. Thanks Dr. Brown for breaking this down.
I must admit that I was a little disappointed to find out none of this is true because it all sounds really nice, however you hit the nail on the head when you said we must look at Scripture for what it is and not try to read all this stuff into it.
The author makes it seem like this is some crazy revelation that has been revealed to him only for our time. That is in and of itself the biggest red flag.
Exactly! As we can see in the comments...many have bought into this false teaching sadly.
Do you mind sharing what book that is?
"Behold the Nail, Behold the Hand!"
THE MASHIACH's follower Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
Truth. ⬇️𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
𐤉=hand 𐤄=behold 𐤅=nail 𐤄=behold
The crucifixion prophesied by and in the name with the letters that spell it.
It's read right to left not left to right like english
it have been debunked by semitist lol!
@@TheShalomPeace amen. It's so disgusting.
"It's just an alphabet" is totally correct. I agree wholeheartedly, Dr. Brown. However, I found this to be at the very least, an interesting coincidence: "Sign" like in the "sign" of the Sabbath, being aleph vav tav, seems to have the meaning of "a silent sacrifice nailed to a cross", Jesus being the alef tav; the beginning and the end.
I believe that the "sign" of the Sabbath, eventually placed as the fourth commandment, was the promise of a "sabbath rest of God" whereby Jesus would provide the rest from human effort toward salvation for whosoever would believe in Him.
I also see the "sign" of circumcision given to Abraham as the promise that one day Jesus would come in the flesh and be "cut off" but not for Himself in order to bring us from the old covenant system (what Paul calls "the flesh") into the new covenant system of the "spirit" being fulfilled on pentacost or shav uot the sign of sevens (owt = sign shav = seven) in the counting of the omer plus one day.
If both the Sabbath and circumcision were "signs", and each one held the promise of Jesus in them, could there be any merit at all to the alef vav tav being "sign" depicting a silent sacrifice nailed to a cross?
It's about the root word. AB is the root that means father (Abba) or ABraham. Ox means strong or leader and tent(bet) means tent ,house. So ab is leader of the house.....or father
You speak Germanic Yiddish. It’s not original Hebrew because you are not the original Hebrews.
You nailed it, Yiddish is a mixture of German language and Hebrew Alphabet words, it amazes me how people get upset because they kno that they are from japhite, Russia and Turkish descent, a people who do not fit any of the curses of Dueteronomy, 2 Esdras I kno they work those of whom say they are Jews but ye not,, I will mk them of the synagogue of satan, the truth is coming out in a plethora of flooding the truth,
This is the one right here! Say it again for the people in the dam back!!!
@@miltonwilliams3649,
Discovered, the GHABARAY HEBREW, just a few months ago...
And they reject this modern block Hebrew, with the Vowel points, thats known as the MASORETIC TEXT, as incorrect Hebrew...
These Ghabaray, teachers, say that GOD's True Name, is YA'OH...
GOOGLE Ghabaray Hebrew...
I just saw this video and I'm learning ancient Hebrew letters and pictographs and as I'm watching this I'm hearing the article that u show as factless I'm sitting down thinking I'm glad I know what בראשית means and can use the picture meanings in a more common sense way of proper interpretation not false 😁
Facts
The etymology of language is not its definition nor interpretation of said passage.
It's not about what you or doctor whomever thinks, it's what Yahweh thinks. It matters to Him. One day we will all have to answer for every idle word.
@Warrior Of YAHUAH Where'd you get your vowels and why are you so confident? Who told you the vav had a "u" sound and why do you believe them?
My Hebrew Bible says Yehovah with shva, cholem, and qamatz ask Nehemiah Gordon a Hebrew scholar
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, the honour of kings to search it out.
God hid a secret, humans will be glorified when they figure this secret out.
I believe I have.
@@fourtwenty5986 Have you? Which secret??
@@KravMagoo maga
@@lynnfarley7859 lol
@@KravMagoo can't fool me- black belt.
It's obvious Brown's put passion & hard work into defending his position, so thanks for your zeal! But what's also obvious is that there undeniably IS meaning to some, if not ALL of the letters, without question, and Brown would have to admit this. I've been studying Hebrew(Masoretic), and I know enough to explain that certain letters DO have meanings. One of the clearest it Lamedh( ל) Deut. 14.1. It is a letter, that phonetically, is a word, which means guide/teach/learn/incentivize, as a shepherd goads sheep with a staff...it also symbolizes 30...that's one. Now Alef. Just like Alef symbolizes numerically "one", it can also mean "thousand", and if you read the Midrash, well you've only just begun to open the box, not to mention are negating Gematria altogether? Shall we mention then that the letter "beyt"( ב) phonetically, (sounds like "bait", in English)carries with it the meaning "house", and simultaneously carries the numeric value of "2". Call it what you want, symbolism, or some other words I'm not smart enough to know right now, there's levels of meaning to the letters. BTW, I'm not trying to make myself look right by making Brown look wrong. To me, it's a case of, "if the person who's seeing a meaning in the letters below the surface of the letter itself, and the final product is that they're more in love with God's Word, and it makes them a better person, inspires them and brings healing and more imagination to themselves, and those around them, what's the big deal?" We all do and think stupid stuff, we all have blinders. How is Brown harmed by this? I think one who assumes the posture of final arbiter with respect to the meanings of letters, unless they completely teach a wrong translation, is simply being pedantic, or worse still, they could be standing on the thin ice of legalism.
Bravo to everyone! by your comments you know that Yah has maintained His codes inside of the languages and that He created All languages from Hebrew at the Tower of Babel. All languages that you show here Dr. Brown, bear a resemblance to ancient Hebrew because that is where they all come from. The alphabet means the two firsts letters in the Hebrew language/ Aleph and Bet, this is where all alphabets come from. To imply that the original meaning s have all been completely lost including the coding of the coming messiah, does not accept the observable facts nor does is honor Yahs ability to maintain His desired meanings most everywhere.
Feed My Sheep Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
How funny the word alphabet itself comes from the first two letters in Hebrew aleph and bate.
And I know it bet but for pronunciations purposes I put bate.
It actually comes fro the greek alpha and beta
That is funny. That was the first "Alphabet". Now Dr. Brown says these are not pictographs but just an Alphabet, yet there was not a single case of Alphabet before that. funny how circle reasoning works :)
@Fire & Air I didn't know the Phoenicians were the Hebrew tribe called Dan.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
What were those pictographs for "hand" and "head" again? Because this comment section has me face palming.
I-R
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
Modern Hebrew letters are actually the Aramaic font. When you look at the Phoenician Hebrew, you can see how the letters had evolved from the Paleo Hebrew, but the Aramaic text is quite different.
I think I just got dumber watching this..
Our relationship with G was always meant to be a personal one. Who is wise enough to place limits on how one is to find that incredibly personal experience of seeing the truth through its original form? Though I rely on many interpretations and accounts to uncover the trail of the word from it's origin, I've come to the conclusion G speaks less in words and more in symbols. Each symbol holds individual impressions of these symbols as individuals have encountered them in the course of their lives allowing an unmistakable understanding for one's own self of the WORD. Discouraging attempts to make connections because you've not discovered them for yourself, is to turn seekers away from the Lord. As well implying there is something to fear in the Lord's creations. "He saw that it was good". Could any garden be so perfect as the one we live in? Could a human being feel any larger sense of aww and beauty as when one gazes on a mountain range absent of man's hotels and shops in G's pure glory. No word in that book we call Bible was not placed there by the hand of man albeit at the command of the Lord. You speak words not of the Lord's mouth. Careful kind sir. You have a beautiful heart but your beliefs are dressing up as his word.
Well yes. But G was never separate from us. traditionally, the Hebrew bible is meant to be "man's interpretation OF G's word" and not directly G's word. Why? Because the "voice of God" is that which you can only hear when you are oriented correctly, inward. The inner conscious, emotions and understanding right from wrong when you see it. Being able to discern the just from the unjust. THAT in Judaism, IS "the voice of God". AND that's really all that Yeshua guy was talking about. "Rebuilding the temple" is never meant to be fulfilled, neither is the "coming messiah". Revelations for instance is not about how to bring the end times, it's the complete opposite. It's saying, don't wait for the end times, or "God's wrath" or "planetary destruction" to find "peace on earth" because you never will. You can only find "inner peace". Eternal peace comes only with death. There is ONLY one unfulfilled "prophecy" in the Hebrew bible and that "prophecy" is NEVER meant to be fulfilled. Because if it were it would defeat the entire purpose of the actual text and the "journey". If the physical temple were rebuilt, people would stop trying to "rebuild their temple", ie THEMSELVES. It's saying if you are waiting for the end times, you might be waiting an extraordinarily long time for nothing, because you will be dead by then, by way of war, famine or pestilence etc... Well, there is a whole lot of content "hidden" within the bible. But it is all very basic, based on math, geometry, astrology/astronomy, metaphor, allegory etc... But no pictographs.
There is symbolism in the bible. But it's not based on pictograms/pictographs. It's based on numeric value and symbolism. You can read the Samaritan torah in the ancient script, and it's still numeric and symbolism.
"Discovering them yourself" means "imagining" things that aren't there.
You sir strike me as a intelligent man so why the miss info ? Paleo Hebrew had real Meaning for actual tangible things or actions , unlike this Babel we speak today. If you want to know the true meaning of a word you have to go to the root.
Did you not watch the video?
@@darthrubik8384 Google Taino's speak Hebrew
@@darthrubik8384 yup, watch it... total bias spin to the ignorances of indoctrination, Paleo is both types of text. He only sees font and not truths in scriptures. YAH is the Aluf-Tuv and every letter /pictograph in between.
Praise YAH firmly Worship YAH humbley Give thanks for the Messiah Halalu-YAH !
@17:17
The Pictographs actually make sense.
Sure if we want to believe Father didn't inspire a language and they copied it from Egyptian.
Makes tons of sense.
@Humble Servant , maybe you should accurately "depict". Your TH-cam name..... since you represent an arrogant self-righteous fool instead of a "humble servant"🤣
@@Hebrew42Day, But the true Hebrews, didnt copy Egyptian Language....
The True Language, is GHABARAY HEBREW...
according to the teachers of it...
They say GOD's true name, is YA'OH...
I personally dont know what to make of it ?
Because i just discovered it, a few months ago...
Etymology and word meanings are two separate facts. What a word means is how the native speakers use it, period. And in that regard, Dr Brown's assertion that interpreting scripture using etymological meaning is dangerous is a valid point. However, etymology simply tells us how the meaning of that word evolved, up to a certain point in history, including, potentially the present time. It is a valid study in its own right, even if it may not be the right tool for scriptural interpretation. In the case of OT, the added consideration is the fact that it is available in two very different languages. Having said that, the most likely evolution of Hebrew writing system was from hieroglyphs. The language already existed. During evolution of the writing system, hieroglyphs were probably reduced to their initial sound, to create phonetic tokens/syllabi.
What is dangerous is the adding to or taking away from the true word of God. The English SPELL language is losing its power.
I personally believe, even if the pictographic hebrew letters had different meaning back in ancient times, that the way we interpret it today, is a gift from above. Truth has many layers. The foundation of our faith is always centered in Yahushua - who is The Way (of life). May we all walk before YHWH with fear trembling and love in YAHUSHUA. Amen.
This Langue Is spiritual and is of the most High. Just because you don't understand it does not mean its not authentic . Its not for you or anybody who is not of the spirit.
Thanks Dr. Brown. I was introduced to a person looking for the hidden meaning of the pictographs years ago. I had never heard of something so far fetched. Eventually, I told him I could not answer his questions because they were nonsense. Mind you I have had four levels of Biblical Hebrew, 2 levels of Aramaic, and a smattering of Greek.
The one thing about people that push this idea is that they do not trust scholars.????
The stars shall be for signs (tau)! Genesis 1: 14.
So true, Harriet Tubman used them to find her way to free her family. Confirmation of scripture.
Google Hebrew Word Picture, "Yahweh", by Aquilla Fleetwood, youtube!
No...Hebrew Word Pictures must agree with scripture!
Shalom...
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
I was interested but his tone has put me off for now..
He is passionate...?
Nunu Cee
I agree with you! I feel the same.Had interest until I heard his way of expressing himself. A servant of the ALMIGHTY is a humble servant not one that shows ego and self righteousness.
He speaks condescendingly; as if he thinks the listeners are stupid.
agreed...it's in the category of scoffing and mocking...to me.
wtfrick is this comment lmao
I recommend Douglas Pietrovich to study how the Oldest alphabet developed from hieroglyphs.
It is not fitting to dismiss the whole idea that there is significance to the pictographs behind the Hebrew letters. There are some beautiful things unveiling here. If you are well versed in the Bible and understand the heart of God, there is much to be appreciated looking at the pictographs.
But certainly if we randomly take any word and use the pictographic letters as means of interpretation, that seems very silly. Of course there are many videos/theories out there that do not hold.
I cannot dismiss or agree completely to this rant by Dr. Brown. The video presents in a way that makes it difficult to take seriously.
Ox + Father = Dad Meaning: Strength of the Family, Ox + Water = Mom Meaning: Glue (strong water) of the family, is much better.
I dont think people necessarily loose their heads over this allegedly dangerous theory, but yes i understand the caution. And I guess it is called for. But if you could stay calm and not loose balance, this would make for a much better case.
I have spent a couple of years looking at this, as an artist. Shalom!
@ART BY Anne Olaug - The problem is that some people make up their own meanings to support their Christology. The more primitive the word is, especially with root words, the easier it is to understand the pictographic meaning. Let's take the word aleph+lamed (ox head+goad), which is "el". It's been translated as "god," but it means "power, might, strength." Why? Well, there's a representation of an "ox" and a "goad." If one has an "ox to goad" then one is demonstrating "power, etc." What goads your ox? What is the driving or motivation force in life? Let's also note that the letter lamed as a prefix in Hebrew is the preposition "to; for" and (אֵל) is the preposition "to; unto; towards." Further, one must view these pictograms through the eyes of the ancient herdsmen and agriculturalists who employed them. The letter "aleph" is the first letter in the Hebrew alephbet and since owning cattle was a status symbol ... an "ox" might also have represent the concept of "prime; first; head, etc." The letter "bet" in pictographic form is a "tent." The Hebrew word for father just alludes to him being "head of household," so to speak, and the mother was in charge of the well water for her family, the fields, and/or their livestock. Like you, I cannot dismiss or agree completely with Dr. Brown's rant.
“idiocy”? name calling defeats credibility. Just saying.
Namecalling is addressed to people, not ideas.
Edmund Marler Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
@@TheShalomPeace
So you do know that the ancient phoenicians/hebrew does look like chicken scratches? Since distances were great there is also some variation in phoenicians/hebrew script. But modern square hebrew does a wonderful job of presenting the depth of meanings.
Let's take the first two alphabets. Alefh (Ox head) means authority, power. Beyt (tent/house) means family. The word, father (אָב) means authority of the family. That's just from a bi-literal word. With just 19 letters, vocabulary of a triliteral roots of 6,859 words can be constructed, that is just assuming one meaning assigned to each letter.
The GHABARAY HEBREW, is the only True Language, Sanctioned, by GOD...
According to the teachers of GHABARAY....so they say..
They also say GOD's true name is YA'OH....
.I personally dont know what to make of it ?
Just discovered this a few months ago..
You have conveniently left out the two letter prime root words in Hebrew. Ancient Hebrew doesn't really have all that much in common with modern Hebrew. Mother in paleo Hebrew, AMA. Strength/leadership + [a liquid], water or blood. LOOK AT THE SPELLING! BUT as you come forward in time this wont necessarily work. I'm not going to waste a lot of my time or yours. You probably wont consider my argument anyway, so I will cut to the chase. You are wrong.
You gave up on your rebuttal way too easy which for me means that you dont know how to actually prove your point.
@@davidmcbride1117 Aleph/Strong Mem/water = glue. Mother is the one who holds the family together and is also the Aleph/First Mem/Water of the baby.
It's pretty clear but like everything in scripture much is hidden and you have to have the eyes to see it.
Dr Brown is more blind on this than I care to describe.
May all Paleo Pride supporters be known as Anti-Semitic by their opposition to the Hebrew Scriptures in the Tanach.
1. Ezra gave us the Torah in Block Script not Paleo Slave Language (PSL)
2. Ezra made that copy from the scroll that was found before the captivity. It was “THE” Book Of The Law from Moses. And obviously not in PSL.
3. The Paleo Pride Movement disrespects the Hebrew Roots of the American Jewish community and its publishers who preserved and delivered us the Tanach simultaneously insulting those who gave their lives to preserving Torah for us over the centuries.
4. Deny testimony of rabbinical professors
5. Deny the Scriptures where Josiah reads THE Book Of The Law were directly preserved since Moses and is the Torah as found in the Tanach.
6. Will not provide a teacher / Leader of their movement. So there is no authority and no accountability.
7. If Ezra had changed the script from Paleo to Block in the book of Moses, it would have been WELL KNOWN.
To suggest PSL was the original tongue is an incredible insult to the nation of Israel, to the Great Synagogue, also to Ezra The Scribe the High Priest.
8. Openly Defy all authorities on the Hebrew Bible, Tanach and the full copies of the Torah that we have in our homes now and do that with only a few scraps and no complete manuscripts of PSL.
9. Lack the necessary Holy Spirit to decipher the true from false in the Oral Law.
10. Deny the Oral Law is an attachment to the Torah and referred to by Moses.
The true keeper of Torah is the Nation of Israel. To deny the record that the Jews have preserved our Hebrew roots is titanic error and anti-Semitic.
Exhibit of proof:
MIRACLE LETTERS
As early as 500c well before any paleo arguments started it was well established that the Ashurit Script was the ONLY consideration as the Style Moses used.
~ The Talmud (explains that the letters were engraved all the way through the stone to the opposite side. Now, since the letters samech ״ס״ and (final) mem ״ם״ in the Ashurit are completely closed, the section of stone in their centers was unattached to the body of the Tablets, and could have remained in place only through a miracle. This, however, is true only with regard to ketav Ashurit Script. In ketav Ivri, neither the mem nor the samech are completely closed.
So it is impossible for the direct historians to the Most Holy Book in the world would even have considered ANY other script
You will notice also that the Ashurit script Does Not Change over 100’s of years while Paleo has major changes.
A) One comment from Mar Zutra (some say Mar Ukva) said: “Originally, the Torah was given to Israel in Ivri letters and in the “sacred” (Hebrew) language. (This is a Kabbalah / spiritualism theory). Later, in the times of Ezra, the Torah was given in Ashurit script and the Aramaic language. Finally, they selected for Israel the Ashurit script and the Hebrew language, leaving the Ivri characters and the Aramaic language for the commoners.” This comment totally disagrees with the Talmud.
b) It was taught: Rebbi said: “Torah was originally given to Israel in Ashurit script. When they sinned, it was changed to roetz (Ivri script). When they repented, Ashurit script was reintroduced . . .”
c) R' Shimon ben Elazar said in the name of R' Eliezer ben Parta, who said in the name of R' Elazar Hamoda’i: “This writing was never changed [i.e., it was always in Ashurit script].”
In the Yerushalmi Megillah chapter one, halacha nine it states they were in Assyrian script…and this script none knew but the Heavenly host…and as soon as the Tablets were given they were hidden in the Ark and they were not taken out. And they were filed away in the days of Jeremiah the prophet, so that no man saw them…because the script was so holy Moshe was not allowed to write in the Assyrian script,
SUMMRY:
The claim that paleo is the original script is lifeless.
If the Script had changed Ezra and the Great Synagogue would have made it well known. It would have been common knowledge and a major news topic almost as large as the Exile itself.
Can you imagine the Jews not having a nationwide debate over something as important as this? There would have been well known heated arguments lasting 100’s of years! But no, only since Paleo scraps have been found in The 1950’s and then recently misrepresented by leaderless individuals with no accountability.
Small detail:
Crucifiction was not originated by the Romans:
The oldest crucifixion may be a post-mortem one mentioned by Herodotus. Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, was put to death in 522 BC by Persians, and his dead body was then crucified."
Yahwah is the name of Elohim. And Yahwahshua is his son that died for our sins. He died and took the death penalty out of the law. We need to learn the laws in the Torah (old testament of the bible). Learn the 10 commandments. Learn the song of Moses. Learn the song of the lamb. Learn the true name of our Mighty One! It is Yahwah! You need to study the root meaning of words! Read the bible! The Jesuits created the name Jesus with the j hook, the name Jesus comes from the name Zeus. Gnashing of teeth! Yahwah is the sound of breath. Yah for breath in and Wah for breath out! Fear YHWH. And learn his commandments and laws. And obey them! Do not trust someone that tells you not to keep the laws of YHWH! We are not fighting flesh and blood. We are fighting demons! Repent and wear Sackcloth! Fear YHWH. Fear, hear, learn and obey!
you remain unsaved unless you call on Yeshua Hamachiach, JEWS believe in your yAHWAH and remain unsaved, repent and call on Yeshua
Thank you Dr. Brown for making this video! I just rediscovered the paleo-Hebrew script, and your video saved me from who knows how much wasted time, not to mention error! Here's a meaningful pictograph just for you 🤗
Anglo-Humanist Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
@@TheShalomPeace It's sadly amusing the things we tend to get caught up in, isn't it. At least people are reading the bible!
Anglo-Humanist actually, there are no complete books in Palio Hebrew. So they’re not reading the Bible. Whatever works they have have hundreds and hundreds of errors.
Peace Angelo! And watch out for the caveman!
@@TheShalomPeace I wasn't aware there were any extant texts at all; I thought they were back porting it to the old pictographs.
@@TheShalomPeace This is true, the Bible we have comes from the Ashurit script which was adopted after the exile and based on what the Aramaic speakers of the region were using. A lot of the OT is written in Aramaic.
Thank you for this. Can you please teach us about the the vowel points that were inserted in to the Masoretic text which added a filter to the word of God reflecting Jewish theology? The fact that there were no vowels written and that the vowel sounds were only passed down through oral tradition is very problematic I think.
Pretty simple. The word has been diluted over time. From the additions and takeaways. So we have to learn the peleo Hebrew to get the true meaning
JTM Peter Galgiani Also Yehoshua himself testified that the Block style Hebrew along with the vowel pointing preserved today in the Lenigrad Codex and Massoretic text are inspired.
Matthew 5:
18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Translated accurately from it's original source of Hebrew the rendering would say:
Matthew 5:
For I tell you truly, until Heaven and Earth pass away, Not a single Yod, nor stroke of the pen/accent mark or vowel point, will be done away with until everything is accomplished.
These same endorsers of the Paleo Hebrew assert that the Vowel pointing was a deception invented by the Tiberian Masoretic Scribes over 1000 years ago. This is a huge lie.
truthwatchers.com/evidence-hebrew-vowel-points-inspired/
@@TheShalomPeace Oh you read the New Testament? Busted! Then you have read that the Messiah has hands and feet the color of brass as if it was burned in a FIRE 🔥! He is from the house of Israel which means that his family members look like brass that have been burned in a fire 🔥!
It's hard to teach someone who feel they know it all or have a closed Mind and apparently never read Mathew 7:7
There is something Dr Brown did not touch upon, and that is that pictographs had sounds. sounds come out of our mouths, not pictures. So, a bull's head is B-U-L-Z H-E-D in sounds, but just one picture when written. The evolution from picture to alphabet is the journey of writing sounds. Since all words share sounds with other words, our written code, our alphabet makes writing millions of pictures unnecessary.
At the offset, it might seem that an alphabet is WORSE than a pictographic system, after all a bull's head in one symbol, instead of 9 letters, an apostrophe and a space 11 typed characters. But letters are reusable in other words, while the bull's head is not. "Bill's here" uses almost all the same ingredients of bull's head, yet in pictographs one would need at least two new pictures, one meaning Bill (and not Bob, Dave, Tim, etc...) and one signifying here (not there) and probably one signifying his arrival or motion (not leaving) The alphabet, by destroying and no longer employing pictographic methods of treansferring information cannot do what it does AND still represent the pictographic system.
I don’t see how what you are saying disproves what I have heard about paleo Hebrew. You are talking about other civilizations that created cuneiform writing etc. Thank you for the lesson but that evolution of how their languages evolved does not prove or disprove anything about Hebrew. God created Hebrew not man.
your comment is the only one that begins to address the actual meaning of a pictograph. Hebrew letters are not pictographs.
@@dulcimersong HALLELUYAH!
buzzbbird Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
@@TheShalomPeace No, it does not, in ANY possible translation say it was in his own language or any such similar thing.
It does, in all possible translation possibilities, teach and say that the writings were his , meaning Moses did not chisel them out.
Moreover, the "bar" in the word Bereshit is not the Hebrew word for son It is the Aramaic word for son. So, the proponent of the Christological meaning of the word Bereshit would have to explain why an Aramaic word was embedded in Bereshit.
Get canaanite get.... 🐍 🇮🇱
Probably because it's prophetic? That's kind of the whole point, modern hebrew didn't exist when these symbols were used, and as both Hebrew and Aramaic were used in the writing of the Bible, it also fits that these languages have intermixed a great deal in their natural evolution. Language is not a steady structure that changes from one moment to another, it evolves very slowly along with peoples.
Aren't we talking about the transition from symbols to word spellings? Clearly the original usages of symbols (of all the most ancient languages) would combine symbols to make a unified thought that would later be simplified into that word and its meaning. It seems all they are doing is decoding backwards. Much like the theory of Evolution. I've tried this on numerous Hebrew words and their is some logic to it, not at all precise and I wouldn't go building doctrines on it. At the least it is novel concept and at most it can be made to reinforce the word meaning helping with understanding. It is good to know that there is this challenge to this teaching style. It is reminiscent to Numerology of the 60's and 70's. Thanks
Actually, this is not quite correct. Once the symbols became consonants, based on the first letter of the symbol, the pictorial meaning was of lost. So, the transition was from pictographs to ideograms to syllabary (or, straight) to alphabet.
No doubt many concepts and transition were lost to history, but I cannot buy into a strict cut off point. Language transitions slowly over time. I still see that some logical symbol construct exists by combining a series of symbols creating a separate thought or sentence. A spelled out word or name was at some time in its past existing only as series of symbols. When a Hebrew scribe spelled out say the name "ADAM" it was at one time in its history a combined symbol name. They did not just come up with some new spelling of that name. I admit ancient language is not my field of study so I take what you say with a heavy measure of consideration. Thanks for the response.
@@LFTV, Not according to the GHABARAY HEBREW, teachers...
They still retain the Original Letters, without the Vowel Points....
Look up GHABARAY Hebrew....
@@steveneff7334,Not true...
GHABARAY HEBREW, is the true HEBREW, according to the teachers of GHABARAY...
and GOD's true Name, is YA'OH....
according them..
I personally, dont know what to make of it ?
Just discovered it, a few months ago....
Dr. Douglas Petrovich MDiv, ThM, MA, PhD, has now translated those Serabit writings and they are proto-Hebrew. Hebrew was the first consonental alphabet and it appears that it was Joseph's son Manasseh (Hebeded-He-Who-Was-Disfavored) who made the consonantal alphabet using pictures from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
I believe Hebrew letters are with meaningful because same word are used for more then ten meaning
My understanding is that modern day Hebrew is a language just like any other language but...Biblical Hebrew is God's language. I absolutely love the biblical meanings of the letters etc. Thank you so much.
That's your "understanding", is it? And what exactly is the difference between the two?
Vowelled Masoretic was not in use in Moses' time, nor was Square script, and Paleo Hebrew also wasn't even in existence, or at least has not been proven to have been, when Moses was alive as he lived long before even it came into use.
The script in use in Moses' time would have been Proto-Sinaitic script or perhaps Egyptian Hieroglyphs as Moses, as the scriptures says, was instructed in the knowledge of the Egyptians.
Paleo Hebrew, used from the 12th to 6th century BC (around 2,000 years older than Masoretic) gave way to Square Hebrew (around 1,300 years older than Masoretic).
But if one wants to write original Hebrew one should learn to write Paleo Hebrew as it would be more ancient and authentic than Masoretic, vowelled Hebrew.
We can see from the Silver Scroll, numerous clay items, seals, etc, that Paleo preceded Square Script, but followed after Proto-Sinaitic.
We may not be able to prove with 100% certainty what language God's finger inscribed upon the 2 stone tablets, but it certainly wasn't vowelled Masoretic as it wasn't in use right after that and it is at best a very long shot to be Paleo although still possible.
Best bet, since Moses would be able to read it and transmit it to the people, would be the 10 commandments were written in Proto-Sinaitic or Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
Edit: and one shouldn't call Proto-Sinaitic scratch as it is far from that.
@@raymack8767 nice comment. But I don’t think it was Egyptian writings, it may have been influenced by it and therefore that why there are meanings for each of the letters and not just as syllabic creation of words.
Dr. Brown is not connecting the dots of Hebraic Aleph bet and linguistics , like you have so well in your comment.
The name of the video is so off ?
He barely touches on Paleo Hebrew and that’s not his issue any way.
It’s the Proto-Siniatic ideograms that he has the issue with.
Like you said Moses and his people lived in Egypt for 400 years or so, therefore the Hebraic language had to take influence from the Egyptian language and culture. Just as the Hebraic language went through drastic changes in Babylon/Aramea/Chaldea , going from a standard Paleo Hebrew, to a box Aramean/Chaldean script.
The Aramaic and Akkadian influence is unavoidable. Many words were adapted and adopted , as I said the style of writing of each letter of the Aleph bet changes and this is just an assumption but pronunciation and accents MUST have changed , at least a little bit, after being in bondage all those years, until Persia took over and Ezra was sent back to teach the Torah and Nehemiah then built the walls of Yerushalim back.
Anyway this comment went long.
God bless in Yeshuas Holy name !
No such thing as paleo Hebrew since it is actually a Phoenician alphabet a copy
@@SaintSergey that's the common theory, but there's another that those on the northern coasts that became the people called Phoenicians had influences from their Israelite neighbors and adopted their script. The tribe of Dan could have been integrated (grafted in) with the people known as the Phoenicians.
I'll go with Dr Brown on this. He has been studying ancient languages forever and has many advanced degrees in them. People love to come up with all kinds of new ideas, but the old chestnut bears listening - if you suddenly have figured out something new about the bible after all these thousands of years after all these brilliant inspired men have been studying it, be very careful you are not just falling into a deception of your own desire.
It is best that we get together as layman researchers invested in exploring new possibilities of the underlying puzzles of YHVVH's scriptural Tetragramaton instead of listening to all those so called Rabbi's and P.H.D'ers who end up trying to be the only authority on Gods grand puzzle and designs and hidden treasures. Those so called Rabbi's and P.H.D'ers end up being like the F.D.A and Emperial Britain hiding Africas past and Israels past and Alotment from God.
@@annamolly6421
Titus 1:10, 11
10For there are many rebellious men, profitless talkers, and deceivers, especially those who adhere to the circumcision.
11 It is necessary to shut their mouths, because these very men keep on subverting entire households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.
But you can't read in "anything" you want. The alphabet is set and the origin is the origin. Aleph has a specific concept - and no other. This sounds like a common historian's concept of Hebrews not being in Egypt at a certain time simply because their perception was off by 250 years. The concept that the Hebrews "borrowed" from the Phoenicians is an acceptance of one value of a timeline - and no others.
You have no references, either. Who did the study? What are the parameters for the study? Was it peer reviewed?
Here's 23 minutes I'll never get back.
so my question is what language and alphabet did Noah use? Did he come before or after the Phoenicians?
Kikongo. 1-10 IS the decilouge of Genesis. Every child knows it.
The Hebrew history was verbal until the first inscription on Sinai. The 10 commandment stones and this New Beautiful Script (block style) was given on Sinai.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote in his personal Script.
He did not write in a developing / primitive Pictograph Language.
Paleo “Hebrew” teaches people that the Creator wrote in chicken scratch.
Exodus 32:16
[16]And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Mosi. Zole. Tatu. Yala. Tanu. Samba. Sambuadi. Nana. Vau. Kumi.
Where can i find the person you are speaking of? I love how that interpretation turned out. By the way, i have to point out how human it is of you (your character) to mock those with whom you disagree. Very scholarly.
Wait till you read Jesus & Paul. 🙄
My final comment is that you should not call on those to remove their work or books simply because they don’t agree with your view of Hebrew. There are Hebrew scholars who would disagree with you including Rabbis who teach on the topic. You could be seen as divisive.
I personally don’t agree with all of it but I do see the connections with combining certain Hebrew letters into words through the pictograph form though the majority as been lost.
Dr. Garza, again, with all respect, I cannot agree with you. First, I am jealous for the Word of God and I see more and more people being deceived by this nonsense, starting to read things into the text that do not exist. Love for God's Word compels me to warn.
Second, how would you feel if people began to buy your books and then say, "We have discovered what Dr. Garza really means," proceeding to put out videos attributing things to you you never said. Wouldn't you ask them to retract their errors, since they were falsely attributing things to you?
Third, truth is often divisive. Shall we not speak the truth because it divides?
Fourth, please investigate every serious scholarly lexicon of the Hebrew language, and where possible, investigate the Semitic cognates and the development of the words. In every case, you will not see a single respected Semitic reference work arguing for the alleged pictographic meanings. The fact that here and there, with some stretching, you can find a match of meanings is no different than using gematria on Shakespeare and discovering some interesting "insights." It's an exercise in fantasy, and nothing less. As someone who loves the Word as you do and gives careful attention to the original languages, you should second my call for people to repudiate their errors. Again, God bless!
ASKDrBrown I agree with your comments except for number three. Your truth on the Hebrew language is not set in stone and there are scholars who disagree with your conclusions. This is NOT salvation truth to divide but simply a scholarly disagreement that should not divide.
You know this because you make this same point about non-essential doctrines. Please reconsider.
Dr. Garza, again, I'm not aware of a single scholar of biblical Hebrew -- they would have published scholarly articles in peer-reviewed articles or written respected volumes in the field -- who differs with a word of this. I stand behind that comment. Correct, it is NOT a matter of salvation; but making the Hebrew text open to fantasy is a serious error to be warned against. We must unify around the truth. Again, God bless, my brother!
ASKDrBrown I will look more into it from a scholarly perspective and get back to you.
God bless brother Brown.
God bless you, my brother!
“Better look for the latest sighting of Elvis” 😂Dr Brown - you made me laugh Thank you
*Are you saying* that the meaning of the original word has changed and has aquired a new meaning with the new unoriginal lanquage of today?
And now you think the original meaning is *bogus*??
Hebrew was and is not English and to understand it you will have to be respectful in your quest. Letters aren't just letters they entail meaning in sounds and actions.
This topic needs to be explored more thoroughly in the development of the Torah linguistically.
Was the Torah originally written in ketav Ivri?
What language was spoken... written by Moshe?
And if it was written in ketav Ivri, did the words have meaning pictorially?
For myself, the jury is still out.
I have the exact same question 🙋♂️. I’ve always learned that our Hebrew books and texts are holy . If this isn’t the original language I am very confused .
Glad I came across this as I had just started looking into the ancient paleo- Hebrew alphabet. I can see why people get drawn into it. It’s ancient fascinating and romantic in a sense but I’ll go with Dr Brown on this who has studied ancient languages for decades, is a scholar and knows a whole lot more than I do. Thanks Dr Brown!
You should really think about making some more apologies sir....to Yahweh first for bashing on something He absolutely ordained.
agreed :) thank you! I'm so frustrated listening to him. He's gonna feel really terrible when he goes before YHWH
The Apostles didn't neef a P.hD.lmao. Just the Holy ghost.
why do you use the holy Name in such a banal discussion or your youtube nickname, and where did hashem order that hebrew letters are pictograms?
And you don't need a PhD to know it's completely bogus and false I studied the pictograph idea of Hebrew for about 15-20 minutes and I knew it was false if you really have the Holy Ghost you wouldn't follow after such fictions
You People are ridiculous. You haven't refuted anything Dr. Brown said, you just get angry and start spouting nonsense and ad hominem attacks on him. RIDICULOUS!
Worse than fantasy, I'd now put this in the realm of astrology & divination. It's ignorant superstition at best and deceitful eisogesis at worst. 😢
Thank you for the intellectually honest, academically rigorous analysis, Dr Brown.
The authors were writing in codified analogy and numerology including the meanings of each letter, jews teach this
How are you supposed to know what words mean if we dont understand them? When i read the bible, every word means something to me when i read the hebrew texts. Can you please explain Dr Brown how YOU interpret words and reading?
This is a really interesting video and I enjoy how the development of language from pictograph/hieroglyphics to the alphabet. Plus I just think it funny when Dr. Brown rants, so funny! This is cool!
Joshua A. Noll-Long Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
As someone who is passionate about studying the origins of Hebrew Root Words I think your tangent is unfounded. The points you make are obvious. It would be ridiculous to insert an ancient pictographic meaning onto a modern word. Studying the figurative pictures, of the original Hebrew Aleph-bet, only shows us its figurative Root meaning. These figurative Root pictures never replace a definition. Your example of the 2-letter root; Aleph and Mem, the Hebrew word for Mother, shows how little you know about the pictographic meaning of Water. When we learn to think figuratively we can see what Water does. It is a Liquid. It can be Chaotic. It can represent a Sea of people. It is what sustains our Life. Blood is a liquid. Glue is a binding liquid. But most importantly, we are born physically from the Water in the Womb of our Mother. This is the same figurative example our Messiah uses when He says I Am the (Spiritual) Life-giving Water.
The Hebrew ''ozi', translated into English as "my strength" in Isaiah 12:2, is spelled 'ayin-zayin-yod. The pictographs would be an eye, a metal farming implement (or weapon), and a hand/arm. Therefore according to the pictographic interpretation, ''ozi' has the meaning of skill with weapons. Even the concept of hand-eye coordination is there. That's just one example of how the pictographs make perfect sense, but I certainly am no authority. The fact that you are so passionate about refuting teachings about proto-Semitic pictographs makes me wary. It shows you are clearly biased and possibly promoting some fundamentalist Christian agenda. One thing for certain is that there are relationships between certain Hebrew words derived from the same root, and the ultimate truth of the Hebrew Bible is lost in translation. But then again you might consider me to be one of those individuals condemned to eternal torment in some imaginary afterlife "hell" because of my knowledge of Qabalistic and Hebraic truths that go against fundamentalist Christian dogmas. The Jewish Kabbalists also assign a certain meaning and number-value to each individual Hebrew letter, but those letters are actually of Babylonian origin. As I recall, the Samaritan Torah is written in Paleo-Hebrew, not Babylonian letters. In my opinion, the research you present in this video is biased.
I was looking at Phoenician handwriting and hebrew. Looked almost identical or 95% identical. Whose to say when an artifact or writing is found in Palestine, its not Phoenician but Hebrew?
@@IA100KPDT It makes perfect sense why they would be so similar. Israel had close ties with the Phoenicians - Sidon and Tyre were major sea ports
@@shayalynn of cos iit makes perfect sense. if I say there is no ancient israel and whatever they found in so called "Israel" are nothing but phoenicians, no one can fault me.
@@IA100KPDT With that logic, let’s just say North Americans are really Canadians because of the closeness of location and because they share the same exact language. They made up their whole history for some reason, despite having close ties with Canada and despite all the archeological evidence we have of the existence of North Americans not being Canadians (as they are totally separate people living in different geographical places! And I know that it gets more complicated because various ethnicities live in those two geographical places as they are named based on geography and citizenship).
Now I understand this is not the most perfect example, but *hopefully* you understand my point.
@@shayalynn I know what you mean except 3000 years ago, if u speak and write the same, u r most probably the same because concept of country was not born yet.
Dr. Brown, I love you and I believe you are a brother in Christ, but I know you are wrong about this particular issue because I know of two examples which I found myself in the text of the Bible itself that follows the picture ideas communicated by the 22 letters of Hebrew Alphabet in sequence. Genesis 6:1-22 follows the ideas communicated by the 22 Hebrew letters in sequence. Also, each chapter of the Book of the Revelation is connected in some way to the picture meanings of each of the 22 letters. I have two witnesses from the text.
origins are never forgotten. i suppose you could forget Who created you.
OMG, why the nonsense about EGYPTIAN Hieroglyphs. The hypotheses concerns Proto-Canaanite carvings, that were based on some Egyptian hieroglyphs, but are sounds that do not resemble the Egyptian language, but the Canaanite language. However, the text you pinned here, shows you don't know anything of the hypothesis. So you can talk about your PHD and start namedropping, that doesn't mean anything. "How do you get from ox to master"? Really? That is ENGLISH, but we are talking about Canaanite where Aleph not just means ox, but the leading ox - for instance the ox who leads the herd or leads another less experienced ox when tied to a a yoke. That was important in a society where agriculture was important. The yoke or staff was the Lamed, which is the letter L. All leading characters in the Bible have a staff and even today the staff is used as a symbol of leadership, from the Queen's scepter to a baton of a general or conductor of an orchestra. M means water, but it is also the number 40. It is everywhere in the Biblical text. M also means chaos and this is evident in Mesopotamian myths as well. Besides, water is the only thing the god of the Bible did not create!. The role of the god in the bible was to make order of the chaos. That is what Genesis 1 is all about. You have to read the text in Hebrew and not in English, but even the Hebrew changed over time and this is obvious in the use of the letter Shin, which is also used as Sin, but was originally a different letter with another specific meaning. I studied this and though I am not religious and don't accept ANYTHING on believe (whence my remark about PHD's and namedropping) I decided that the hypothesis is quite consistent all over the Hebrew text. That is too remarkable to be a coincidence. I think that the writers of the Biblical text - the last rewritten version by Ezra and his contemparies - deliberately used the alphabet (both as letters and numbers) this way.
Your favourite word seems to be “Bogus”
Richard clarke this video is... Bogus...
Linda NWFirefighter Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
The fundamental problem with 'barasheet' is that the hidden code would have zero meaning to the readers until the NT at which point the NT sets out the redemption story far clearer than the hidden code. We don't need the hidden code, it serves absolutely no purpose.
Thanks Dr Brown, about time someone finally spoke out about this fantasy that glorifies these teachers as they play "wannabe scholars." One thing that troubles me is that they decode these words from unsure letter meanings. Different scholars have different interpretations. The waw has been said to mean nail but a Hebrew scholar in a book I read recently believes it was a hook in reference to hanging the temple curtains. The Tau meaning "goat" and not mark. Who knows. How can one decode when you don't even know if you got the decoder keys right?
Appreciated the video, but in all fairness… you can do the exact same thing with the whole Bible if you don’t have a coherent hermeneutic. How familiar are you with the Kabbalah tradition and Mashal in general?
And yet the same letters can have a numeric value.
So are they numbers or letters? *BOTH* and while the letter have a phonetic value, it has a numeric value, it has a pictographic value, it has a grammatical value much like the s is a suffix for plural.
I have no idea why he is doing this? Because He is against Kabbalah? You can be against Kabbalah and still understand that these letters have importance beyond the phonetic @ASKDrBrown
Amen
He's over the top in his 'need' to convince. His argument should rely objective evidence rather than an overly expressive emotional plea. Even the video thumbnail is attempting to convince and sway opinion before evidence is given. A sign of a weak argument is forthcoming.
Hebrew is a semitic (priestly) language and is not in the same group like indo-european languages like Babylonian, Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, etc.
The kabbalistic tradition uses the Hebrew otiot ("signs' they are properly called otiot and are not called letters or characters). The otiot are used as meditational devices in kabbalah since before The Bahir and The Sefer Yetzirah. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsberg has written a book exclusively on the meanings of the otiot as well as other rabbis. There are also other books such as those written by Paul Foster Case.
The problem is that people in the secular materialist world thinking that everything can be approached from an academic point of view.
These probably thought they were teaching Hebrew when they themselves got schooled by students who were versed in the Secret Wisdom of Israel and knew the esoteric meanings of the otiot. And so embarrassed they thought they needed to make video discrediting the ancient connection between the pictographic meanings and the Ashurit kitvei or Bavli square script. Hebrew otiot do not compare to Roman letters.
Dr. Brown:
"Pictographs had meaning." but
"Pictographs don't have meaning." so
"You're making it up."
Ancient language buffs:
"Pictographs had meaning, let's look at them. That's interesting."
By the way, Ben Yehuda’s pocket Hebrew English dictionary has the pictographs for every Hebrew letter and it’s association with them. Was he wrong too?
I have the complete Ben Yehuda multi-volume dictionary, as I imagine you have. Are you telling me that he derives definitions of words from the original pictographs? We all know where the letters came from, as this video documents. But I'd love to see examples where he gets definitions of words from pictographs. I take it that's your point when you ask, "Was he wrong?" Also, re: a word like "father" in Hebrew is almost universally agreed to be an onomatopoeic word. it is NOT derived from pictographic meanings.
ASKDrBrown First, I do have the volumes.
Second, I’m referring to the fact that they show the pictograph like “tav” which is a picture of a cross and means in Hebrew “mark” or “sign” shown in Ezekiel 9.
Finally, “Father” is an English abstract concept not found in Hebrew. “Ab” is based on a more concrete meaning based on the pictograph script according to Dr.Ben Gigi. Is he wrong and you are right? He is fluent in Hebrew and a Hebrew scholar. He didn’t originally agree with the idea but changed his views when challenged by Dr.Seekins. Can you explain their errors? Both are credible.
+DrAlGazra You're not understanding this. Nobody is denying the pictographs. The point is that an individual word formed from an alphabet, isn't read like pictographs.
boliussa Not true, as I stated that there is Hebrew scholars who disagree. I understand perfectly. Read my discussion I’m having with Dr.Brown.
First, if you have the volumes, you know there is no example in his dictionary where he derives THE MEANING OF A WORD from the original pictographs. Again, everyone knows this. It's not rocket science.
Second, yes, we understand the original meaning of the tav, but it does NOT carry that meaning throughout the Hebrew vocabulary that uses that letter. Since you know Hebrew well, just think of the utter absurdity of conjugating imperfect female verbal forms starting with the tav. It does NOT have a pictographic meaning in the words.
Third, to my knowledge, Dr. Seekings has no related academic credentials to back his work, and a simple reading through any one verse of the Bible, using the alleged pictographic meaning of the letters, results in sheer nonsense. I'm truly baffled that anyone with knowledge of how languages and alphabets would question this for a split second.
Fourth, the Hebrew word for "father" is common in the Semitic languages, and surely, if you look in the Akkadian, there's no pictographic meaning of the alleged "strength" and "house" as is alleged in the Hebrew. It's a common Semitic word because it's probably one of the first sounds a baby can make. Anyway, I interact with you here out of respect, knowing you're a serious student of the Word and the original languages. (As you know, I can't normally interact in the comments sections to our materials.) So, my sense of astonishment and exasperation is not based on lack of respect for your scholarship -- quite the opposite -- but this subject is hardly worthy of debate. God bless, my brother!
The pictorial letters of Paleo Hebrew are in no way false, for the last letter thereof is the cross.
No Scripture is of any private interpretation.
Ashkanaz Jewish alphabet with 4 new letters changes everything and caused great loss of options which were there in Paleo Hebrew language.
You took a picture and come up with letter leaving out other picture options ending up loosing a lot of the picture
This is what trying to cover up the truth looks like. We are catching onto you :)
This is really well argued. To contrast a commenter below, paleo-Hebrew is indeed being taught these days, I was taught the aleph-bet in 3 stages, beginning with pictograph, then middle script, then modern aramaic script. For example, 11:12 the Sinai script, that's how I learned aleph before I ever saw a single bit of modern Hebrew. So, what I will say is that this isn't solely a phenomenon of evangelicals on the internet, in my introductory Hebrew textbook, the pictographs are present. I think Dr. Brown refuted this and I'm convinced he's right, but this way of thinking has gotten further than evangelical circles and is definitely in colleges & seminaries.
Also:
Not really sure what all the comments about this being "off-putting" because of tone are about. This is the study of semitic languages, not the study of French or some other high-end wine drinking language. This is the earthy stuff, it gets rough sometimes!
@ASKDrBrown:
I was thinking how to explain this more plainly. Imagine a comic book, it says that Superman flew and there is a picture of Superman flying. We cannot take the words, Superman, and divide the words up by their letters and try to take the picture drawn and assign a bit of the picture to each letter, trying to make each letter a small bit of the picture. This is not how alphabets work.
I think this is a very easy explanation.
@Mashariel Actually, there are other Semitic languages that have similar structure. No one pays those languages much mind it this respect because they don't have a Bible.
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote in his personal Script.
He did not write in a developing / primitive Pictograph Language.
You are teaching people that the Creator wrote in chicken scratch.
You are right, this doesn't work in reverse. But if your language calls this man s+u+p+e+r+m+a+n because this is the meaning of each sound in that word, then you now want to convey that in writing and need to come up with a written form for each sound. In the same way Chemistry calls Water H2O and there is no other material in the universe that can mean H2O, simply because the distinct properties of 2 atoms of Hydrogen and 1 atom of Oxygen bound together. The pictures are just the letter H, the number 2 and the letter O, but the elements were there long before you assigned 'pictures' to them
This dude is confusing himself. How do we depict these hydrographic then??? I’m lost the symbols clearly mean what they are a man with his hands raise means behold or look , doesn’t take a scientist to ufigyre that out🤦🏾♂️
When the most high gave moses the ten words did he use egyptian or would he use a set apart language consisting of 22 characters like our sets of 22 chromosomes
Um, we have 46 chromosomes, bro.
@@theblacksmithshammer Hey, dude...don't confuse him with facts. His bubble might burst.
Oh, so "unlikely".
This is correct as the “Hieroglyphs” in Egypt are actually called “Nsibidi” which was created by Igbos who are ancient Sumerians...”Annunachi” is ancient Ndi-Igbo language: “Anu una” is “bird animal” and “chi” is “God”. It means “Bird animal of God” which means “messenger of God” because birds were likened to messengers. That’s why In Egypt they drew Man-figures with Bird heads on them...Ndi Igbos are the Annuachi and are the messengers of God on 🌍...majority of #ADOS in America where taken as slaves from Igbo-land, Bight of BiAfara Nigeria. This is why many Blacks were great inventors with many inventions. Igbos hear directly from God (ChiUkwu) like NnaOha (Noah) did when he built the Ark. The colonizers spelled most of Igbo language wrong in translations and could not pronounce our sounds...”Nna” is “Father” and “Oha” is “The people” so “NnaOha” = “Father of all the People” in Ndi-Igbo language which comes from Nsibidi. This is why Igbo language is expressive and has infinite absolutes because it is a complete language.
Research the Igbo language and start looking into SouthEastern Nigeria
The drawing of humans with birds heard is not he only one there so many composites.. for example the Sphinx is a lion... Thot at times is a monkey or Baboon, etc.. THESE are TOTEMIC still prevalent among Bantus today...
How would explain the John 1:1 then
A philosophy written by a Roman philosopher named Philo. Copied in Gospel thay you think is written by John.
The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also spelt Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet (P-H), was the script used in the historic kingdoms of Israel and Judah by Israelites. It is variant of the Phoenician alphabet[1] (abjad) of 22 (consonantal) letters. P-H was coined by Solomon Birnbaum in 1954; writing, "To apply the term Phoenician to the script of the Hebrews is hardly suitable".[2]
Archeology dates usage of P-H for writing the Hebrew language to the 10th century BCE.[3] By the 5th century BCE (with the Hebrew Jews exiled in the diaspora) P-H was subsumed by the Imperial Aramaic abjad with little remnant -- the Aramaic sharing a common protolanguage with a simpler font. The present Jewish "square-script" Hebrew aleph beit abjad evolved from the Aramaic. Samaritans (population fewer than 1000) use a P-H abjad derivative, known as the Samaritan alphabet. Usage of P-H is negligible nowadays but it survives in nostalgia (see the ₪1 coin and the logo of the Israeli town Nahariyah).
Co
Thank you for this video Dr Brown. First I thought that you were overreacting, or chasing shadows. I have heard the "name of God means: behold, hand, behold, nail" but that's the extent of it (though, I definitely agree that it's a bit silly although I figured it's not harmful). But judging from the comments (that might be something not worth doing on youtube) there is certainly a need to explain this.
The people of this day seems to be into all kind of "mystical revelation". Rom 1:18-19 "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them."
There is enough truth in the scriptures for a lifetime. We don't need to change the truth about God for a lie. I'm certainly glad that God in his wisdom decided to make his words simple and "reveal them to little children".
Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
There is plenty of "mysticism" and "revelation" in the Hebrew bible and by its derivation the "Christian bible". Even though the Old Testament is actually different than the Hebrew bible. But either way, the "mysticism" that is actually in the Hebrew bible is based on numerology, geometry, basic symbolism and metaphor and allegory. So for instance, the 4 standards of the 4 tribes "encircling" the tend of the Ark of the Covenant, represent the 4 fixed zodiacs and cardinal directions. Judah the lion and the east, or rising sun. Reuben, the face of man, or Aquarius, or the west and setting sun (First (born) becomes last). Ephraim or the Ox/Calf, or the south and Taurus, and then tribe of Dan or "the flying eagle", or North and "scorpio", represented by scorpion or "eagle". These 4 guard the "inner sanctum". Ok. So this symbolism can be found throughout the Hebrew bible in many different variations, but it's always these 4. Or the tetrad. Or geometrically, the "square". The "square" is the 4th part of the circle. To "wholeness". It's describing basic esoteric practices, that can be found in the Pythagorean school, Hinduism, Buddhism, Egyptian cosmology etc... And Freemasonry, which took it's symbolism directly from the Hebrew bible and Christian bible, separately. But these are all describing the same thing. 12 tribes, like 12 signs of the zodiac, like 12 gates of Egyptian underworld, like 12 gates of heaven. Or like the "Chakras". In Kabbalah, the tree of life, 10 nodes, 1 crown and the 12th is unity I believe from memory. There is TONS of this in the Hebrew bible. Which is what Kabbalah tries to teach. But really, it's in every major religion. It's the entire point of "Revelations" in Christianity, not to be taken literally, but it's telling you how to orient yourself inward for the world. Or "ego death" and the stages of life. Which is why you aren't supposed to read Kabbalah until you are like 40 or 42. Which is why the Freemason founding fathers made the rule you cant be President until like 40 or whatever it is. Because at that age, theoretically, you have gone through the selfish phases of life, focused on yourself, your family and hopefully your children. Then by 40, well, at least back in the day, your children would have been grown up. So that is around the age when you stop focusing on yourself, orient yourself towards selflessness for the "world". Anyway, there is a lot of this and it would take a great deal of time. Manly P Hall wrote a great deal about these things, he's got some amazing books and talks that can be found online. Freemasonry teaches the same thing, using different symbolism depending on what form of Masonry. All the Egyptian cosmology, it's in the Vedas in Hinduism and Buddhist "mysticism". There is nothing actually supernatural going on and it's not about the supernatural. It's very much about the natural, the state of our emotions, our body-mind-soul connection and it's mostly about DOING THINGS in life, not waiting for death. Which is what pretty much every CHristian gets wrong about "Revelations". Revelations is literally saying, don't wait for the End times because you might be waiting forever. Instead find peace while you are alive and the "mysticism" of how to do that is strewn throughout the text of Revelations, using numbers and symbolism. "Face of the lion, face of the calf, the face of the man and flying eagle" again. That is all very much IN the Hebrew bible and the Christian bible. But people waiting for "prophecy" and "end times" and "the messiah" are actually interpreting it the complete OPPOSITE of what it's actually saying. So like, the end times is a ridiculous scenario, because it's never supposed to happen. It's saying that people only turn to god when they are faced with their own demise, their own ego death. And in normal life, those ills that can be derived from the 4 horsemen, or "Satan's wrath", are the normal things that turn people towards god. But the only way EVERYONE, the whole world, will turn to god, is if the whole world is faced with their own demise. Which only God knows when that will happen. And "God's wrath" comes in the form of cataclysm, earthquake, volcano, asteroid etc.. The BIG stuff. And since we can't predict those things, there's no point "waiting for them". "Peace on earth" only comes by orientating yourself inward, in "love". "Love is God's law". "Eternal peace" only comes through death. That's all that "Yeshua" guy was on about. Saul of Tarsus and the Romans totally took it literally though, thereby distorting the true meaning. Which is why Constantine had most of the original Yeshua sect texts destroyed when the Christian bible was created by the Roman Empire, for Roman, juxtaposing Abrahamic mythos over Greco-Roman paganism. Yeshua was just saying, the physical temple doesn't matter, focus on the inner temple. The reason only one prophecy in the Hebrew bible is unfulfilled, the messianic prophecy and the rebuilding of the temple, is because it is NEVER supposed to be fulfilled. If it were fulfilled, people would again be looking outwardly for answers rather than inwardly. The "rebuilding of the temple" is meant to represent "rebuilding yourself" or again, "orienting yourself inward to hear God's voice" ie, inner consciousness. Which can only be done with clarity if you are oriented correctly. Otherwise those same "energies" can lead down terrible paths and terrible roads. Anyway, I hope that helps a bit. It's all in the text. And yes, it's ACTUALLY there.
If the pictograms became sounds and then much later words were formulated, you would have a logical point. As your example, the name Brown has no meaning brought from the pictograms but words that were invented when the symbols had pictographic and phonetic meaning would logically been made up from pictographic meanings. If you wanted a word for fire you might put together the idea of strong destruction, (ESH) maybe, cutting is the closest you can get to destruction but the combination of pictograms gives something of a meaning to the people who invented the word to convey an idea. Centuries later, the pictographic meaning has been forgotten and people start claiming it never had any! The idea has been destroyed and all you have left is ash.
Better not tell the kabbalist in isreal. The devote hundreds of volumes dedicated to just the aleph alone.
As well as the Chinese. Huston we have a problem.
Is It 2 Salty 4U Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
I like your comment about the Kabbalists but the comment about Chinese is unfair. Chinese characters are not an alphabet. This person is just arguing that the script used in the Bible is simply an alphabet and nothing more. Chinese script has never been an alphabet.
Of course it is an issue now because the true children are reclaiming their stuff! This stuff is all up and through the Kabbalah but they never had a problem with it. I am willing to bet his mother is from those people over there...@Is It 2 Salty 4U yeah it is seasoned just right for me but look, it is too salty 🧂 for them though lol 😝
Both phoenicians and hebrew writting were just about the same...
They both shared cannanite land.
The israelites all came from one man's loins.... Jacob Aka ISRAEL.
The 12 tribes
They multiplied. They stuck together
Except for the tribe of Dan... Danites could possibly be the Danaoi mentioned in the iliads of homer
Or the sea people. Anyway, they found inscriptions of those symbols in crete... Thats all
His logic is kinda skewed on this subject...
Class Is In Session!!! Exodus 32:16 says that the Creator wrote on the tablets in his own personal script. The Paleo community submits that the Creator wrote primitive picture language and chicken scratch.
No i think the guy is exactly correct in everything he said. Here is a bit of proof for you that will verify what he said. Old norse Futhark is a runic alphabet used in northern Europe Europe and England. They retained the idea that letters had a meaning from a pictograph and it was a deep rich tradition that had a poem for EACH LETTER. It gave the name its meaning and explanation in a poem. It had set each lettet in a specific line with a numerical value as well. Funny thing that if Hebrew had any hidden meanings it would have had all that with it like Futhark. Since it doesnt and noone taught that to the kids as they were learning to write i doubt any such thing went on. In my opinion this is so close to the norse futhark which was also a MAGICAL TOOL TO CAST SPELLS AND DIVINE THE FUTURE THAT I THINK HE IS COPYING THE FUTHARK AND CLAIMING IT TO BE A TRUE THING IN HEBREW. Its way too identical to the futhark for him to have not been influenced.
@@vikingskuld psalm 119...duhhhh. this is the problem. People like you talking like you have knowledge of things you didn't really study
i guess i consider your attitude toward those who like the Paleo-Hebrew picture meanings. I enjoyed seeing you during the Brownsville revival many times Dr. Brown where the Holy Spirit worked in you in humility and repentance as He did with me. You even taught my children at the Brownsville college and sent them as missionaries to China-thank you for your part in that. When you speak from the humility of Yahusha's heart your words are better received. Some comments have said I you come across as one with much learning and scholarly without regard to the opinion of others. Not as a humble servant of the Most High. Always consider that you don't see everything the same way others do. The journey someone has taken to get where they are at in Yahuah is most likely not like yours or mine. If you are trying to destroy heresy I say go for it-but these Paleo-Hebrew pictograph studies have not been based in Heresy or Mysticism from my experience-but ones that have drawn me closer to Elohim. And the Spirit of truth will lead you into all truth.
I have had the same experience. ❤
Materialist never will get it as they are in love with themselves
Don't let your pride blind you to truth.
Galatians 6 instructs us to correct one another gently. Dr Brown, I appreciate your studies and devotion to revealing the truth, but the arrogant and condescending way you treat anyone who doesn't believe exactly as you do is heart breaking. It is this lack of loving kindness that has led to many divisions in the Church, and I assure you that more people are turned off by your poor people skills than are reached by your reasoning.
As for the topic at hand, I've seen evidence to suggest that both sides have merit. The truth is, we don't have enough information to really know how the paleo Hebrew began or evolved. You make your claims based on other ancient languages, and while I suppose that's reasonable, it's certainly not definitive. While it seems there is some truth to the pictures being used to construct ancient words, I actually agree that when people try to do this today, they can read anything they want into it, as there is no definite baseline left for us to compare. However, if people's faith in the text is strengthened by comparing it to ancient symbols, and they are not changing the truth that is revealed in the text, I hardly see why they should be attacked or condemned for their belief. I agree that some of these folks take it way too far and I think most everyone recognizes that. It appears that you are fighting against those who are proclaiming the gospel, simply because you don't like the way they are presenting it. I would encourage you to simply teach the gospel and let the Holy Spirit defend the Word.
I am certain your method has reached many, but I am greatful that in God's wisdom, other people speak with less (harshness?) If that's even a word. Lol. If not, I would have closed off to what you teach immediately. I'm not trying to be overly critical of you, as I'm sure I come off that way to some myself. Hope it helps.
Wow....jealousy needs to be addressed!repent frim your pride....
Which alphabet developed first, the Aramaic or the Hebrew block letters? I know the Paleo Hebrew preceded both, at least I assume that, but once the letters became more block-like, was the Aramaic influenced by the Hebrew Ashuris letters or the other way around?