Because greek was a more common language for communication outside of judea and neighboring areas, where the majority of the hebrew and aramaic. I figured if i could get everything from that book. This name indicates the meaning of revelation it uncovers matters that had been hidden and discloses events that would happen long after it was written. A better translation netbible, however, is provided by the net bible translators, rightly showing that each pair is really one concept, reducing 6 to. The book of revelation explained in under 5 minutes duration.
It was a literal translation that had to comply with the warning at revelation 22. The greek name of the bible book of revelation, apoka. The book of revelation through hebrew eyes lost in translation. Hebrew audio bible book of revelations chapter 1 lowman whitfield.
One of the great unsettled questions about the book of revelation is when. Selections of his bible translation, which have been published every few. Verse 4 life energy may be referring to the 7 energies of ones aura. Hebrew audio bible book of revelations chapter 1 duration. Martin luther called revelation neither apostolic nor prophetic in the 1522 preface to his translation of the new testament he revised his position with a much more favorable assessment in 1530, huldrych zwingli labelled it not a book of the bible, and it was the only new testament book on which john calvin did not write a commentary. The jewish original version of revelation or apocalypse of john, much more coherent than the final one, was written very likely in greek late 70 or 71 c.
Why is the book of revelation translated from greek, if john was. Hebrew audio bible book of revelations chapter 1 youtube. Black hebrews guide to decoding the book of revelation pt1. As a young man, alter was so enamored with the language that he spent much of his time systematically mastering a hebrew hebrew dictionary. Revelations from the hebrew version of matthew sid roth. The last book in the new testament canon, yet in fact one of the oldest. As a translator, he has tracked verse by verse through the hebrew bible.
The book of revelation through hebrew eyes lost in translation, vol. It presents the book as a revelation which god gave. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant john, who testifies to everything he sawthat is, the word of god and the testimony of jesus. Use highlighting, underlining, and take notes while you study the bible. After more than two decades of work, a new hebrew bible to rival. The new view, therefore, began to argue that none of the events described in the book of revelation after chapters i. The old testament text of the new king james version nkjv is based on the false hebrew text via ubs translated by apostateoccultist. The revelation from jesus christ, which god gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. This information about which text in hebrew or greek was used to translate for the particular version, in this case the nkjv is right in the preface or the introduction of the nkjv. Other named and unnamed evangelists of christ as savior almost all jewish so far. All that is known is that this john was a jewish christian prophet, probably belonging to a group of. A hebrew manuscript of the book of revelation british.