When you read Genesis and some other old testament books do you think the original documents were written in Hebrew letters and in the Hebrew Language? Some say it is so. Yet archaeology suggests that at the time of the Exodus there were, as yet, no Hebrew letters and that implies that the original documents, if they truly were written at about the time of the Exodus from Egypt (some say around 1450 BC others around 1200 BC) then the letters could not have been Hebrew. Perhaps they were some form of Hieroglyphics? And this implies that the Hebrew letter text is a translation from the original documents. Perhaps a translation from Hebrew written in Hieroglyphics to Hebrew written in Hebrew letters, or perhaps something else was used as the original language. No one knows, I think, because no original document has been found.
So, are we reading a translation into English of a translation into Hebrew letters when we read Genesis and some other books?
So, are we reading a translation into English of a translation into Hebrew letters when we read Genesis and some other books?