Actually, I'm looking forward to Jeff's Hebrew New Testament. When folks use the term "Bible" it's not a unified concept. More&More, in the media and googling it's harder to find a complete listing of all the books that compose the Earth's bestselling book. People fight over the contents. Right now I could only find a complete listing in the Wikipedia. A year ago that wasn't so. In addition, I just discovered that the Vatican had decreed that no Catholic Bibles/Prayerbooks/Studies are permitted to use YaHWeH or YHWH in translations. They must use either LORD or GOD. That was about two years ago, but I just discovered this. Before I think I am reporting truthfully, I need to know if you all know this.
So I've created my own Bible Books listing derived from the Wikipedia Listing. It's interesting that basically the original languages are Hebrew and Koine Greek. Since I can translate Hebrew myself, that makes me happy. I have had the experience of talking to a retired minister who was expert in Koine Greek. It was about how the Septuagint translated into Koine Greek the word "almah". He said he never thought about that before. He did his own research. I think by now it's not news;) Wouldn't it be nice if every Doctor of Divinity could read all these Bible Books in the original language? Would help us on the Sabbath to become ancient Middle Easterners. When I post Bible verses I always use the truthful English equivalents. Most importantly edit/replace every "the LORD" and "LORD" with "YHWH". That's because I do know what my eyes see. Just like Galileo did; also Baruch Spinoza, whose Hebrew grammar I own. In addition, I've had THE JEWISH WAR by Josephus around for a long time, but couldn't read it because it is too violent. I was not as comfortable with Torah Hebrew. Since I discovered Jeff's Ancient Hebrew research, it's given me self -confidence in my own application of what I read in the Torah's words. One size does fit all for me. Well, because of the Daniel Pearl flap, somehow, I am imagining the Middle East more easily and I can actually marvel at THE JEWISH WAR. It's about Aramaic and Koine Greek culture. In fact, if it had headlines, it would be: Antony&Cleopatra, Jew, Arab. Amazing how easy it is today because of all the new media to slip back into 0CE and live in Jerusalem. No wonder the Talmud says that Hebrew is the Holy Language and Greek is the second Holy Language. Eth-El;) Saltz Quran/The Deuteronomist/Talmud/Shakespeare/Josephus
