Toto

Please see this thread in CSS:

USSC Ten Commandments, Interesting claim

Sheshbazzar

Yes, in each line the prefix "LO" לא is covered by the beard, thus לא תרצח׃ "Not shall thou murder" appears to become the opposite, תרצח׃ the declarative "Thou shalt murder".

Of course anyone proficient in Hebrew would recognise that the beard is simply covering the initial "LO". The design of the sculpture implies its presence.
Kind of like if you were to photograph a billboard, and a lamp-post or building covered one or more letters, so making it appear to alter the intended meaning.

Jim Alison who admits he cannot read Hebrew, is in his reasoning, making the common mistake of thinking that the the Hebrew word order follows the English.
Hebrew negatives read literally as "Not shall thou...", it is an English syntax convention that turns the phrase around into "Thou shall not..."
And the "thou shall" or "shalt thou" does not actually exist as separate words in the Hebrew phrase but are included within the single word for "murder", Thus in its simplest sense The Hebrew is "Not (shall you) murder", English usage requires the "shall you" or "you shall".
Perhaps just "Do not murder" would be the most accurate English rendition, but we tend to be tradition bound when it comes to reciting the well known and traditional King James English phrasing.
And for most, who not proficient in the languages, the text they are familiar with becomes quite sacrosanct, as there is a fear of inadvertently altering the words of scripture.

IamJoseph

Christianity took the Latin on board instead of Jesus' mother tongue - and mistakes will happen. In Isaiah, they made a mistake with 'maiden', and translated it as 'virgin'. And Jesus? that's a Latin name too. I'm certain some Roman Emperors are smirking.

Sheshbazzar

Good grief Joseph! Did you even bother to follow Toto's links and actually read what is being discussed?
A clue dude, the subject is the HEBREW wording of the tablet held by "Moses" that appears high on the South wall of The United States Supreme Courtroom.
This discussion is NOT about Christianity,
it is NOT about Latin,
it is NOT about Christian mistakes,
it is NOT about Jesus.

IT IS however about HEBREW writing, something that you have repeatedly shown yourself to be woefully ignorant about.

razlyubleno

Ah yes... but "Hebrew" itself comes from the Latin "Hebraeus."

Gotcha thar, didn't I?



razly

IamJoseph

I appreciate what you say - however I refered to the source which created those monuments and documents - that they did not take this from an original Hebrew source. Such errors could not occur in original Hebrew writings, which have fail-safe criteria - each Hebrew alphabet is also a numeral, and its sum totals have to be tallied in words and verses. 'LO' = a sum of two - its omission would have thrown the math check and red signals of alarm would prompt the writer. This is why such errors are not seen in the scrolls.

IamJoseph

And the Latin cometh from the Greek Septuagint. Jews never used Latin - this was the sole pervay of Roman, than christianity. There is a loss of translation here. And if this is the case - it says a lot!

semiopen

This is outrageous. Someone would almost have to be insane to write this, and I'm not sure about the almost.

The word for "NO" is pronounced LO, rhymes with low. The Hebrew letters are Lamed and Aleph. Aleph has a value of one, but Lamed has a value of 30.

Therefore this adds up to 31, not 2.

That detail aside, what math check? That's a total fabrication.

IamJoseph

You are correct, my bad. I only meant to express that the '31' would raise an alarm bell.

No sir. Numerology ['Gamatria'] comes from the Hebrew, and has always been an impacting factor in hebrew scrollings: one has to be a licensed scroller to make a Hebrew scroll.

semiopen

From http://www.hebrewworld.com/Tanach-Plus.html

Gematria is also pretty much a crock.

One thing nobody claims it can do is cross check the correctness of a scroll. Your claim is just breathtaking in its delusionality.