I've been reading through the site the past few months and trying to learn what
I can about this approach to ancient Hebrew. I've gone through some of the
educational class online as well. So I think I understand the basic idea of
this groups approach and I agree with pretty much everything I read. It seems
logical and based on facts and solid evidences. Actually, I ran across the
site because I was plotting the script of about 5 different ancient languages
and had decided that Egyptian was derived from Hebrew and that Hebrew probably
came across with Noah. That's when I ran into this site and have been
interested that others were instrested in the same thing.
But one thing that still bugs me is that when I bounce any of this off of
anyone else that has studied Hebrew, such as my pastor (PhD from DTS), most of
the things I ask him, he disagrees with. Then when I look up this on the
Internet and find things from PhD's in lingustics. They all seem to really
dislike what this site promotes. For example, the idea that future is hidden
and behind us and the past is open and in front of us, every Hebrew scholar
(well, person that knows Hebrew as a native lanugage or studied it in school),
which is only a few, seems to disagree with this approach.
So why such a negative backlash against these ideas and why do scholars
disagree? I keep reading history books (my kids history books) and they say
things like Hebrew came from Egyptian. Of course, I know that mainstream is
not always right. I majoried in evolutionary biology in college. So trust me,
I do not always agree with the scholars and mainstream ideals.
I'm teaching my 10-year old a little bit of Greek and Latin and I was thinking
about adding some Hebrew as well. They are little sponges at this age and he
can memorize a dozen or two vocabulary words to my one. So I figured I would
see what his interest is. So far we have focused on the Greek alphabet and
about 30 or so vocabulary words. So we have just started. But since Greek
derives from Hebrew, I figured it would be worth looking up the roots to the
Greek and let him see how some words have come down through Hebrew, Greek, and
then to Latin.
So here's my concern. If I am teaching this stuff to my 10-year old, I want to
make sure it's right, or at least a legitamate approach. But how can I know?
There seems to be a lot of disagreement with mainstream Hebrew teaching.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Are there any scholars or professors
at major universities that would agree with this approach to Hebrew? If not,
any thoughts or ideas as to why that is? Just how sure can I be that this
approach is legit?
