Project Remez
- Working on the theory that Jesus spoke Hebrew, and that His words recorded for us in the Greek New Testament are a translation of what he said, it would be of great assistance to the Bible student to be able to re-construct Jesus' conversation in Hebrew.
- It may not be possible to exactly re-construct the very words that Jesus said, although some worthy scholars suggest that we can, but we are able to recover a significant proportion of His Hebrew vocabulary, by following a straight forward formula.
- In the New Testament there are many quotations of passages from the Tanakh (Old Testament). By cross reference between the Greek words of the New Testament passage and the Hebrew words of the Tanakh, quoted in the Greek, which of course is a Hebrew to Greek translation, it is possible to produce, with certainty, a vocabulary of Greek words that translate the Hebrew.
- PROJECT REMEZ is a research project that does just that. A small group of us in Huntingdon are working through the New Testament to produce the vocabulary described.
- In PROJECT REMEZ each Greek New Testament verse that quotes a portion of the Tanakh is carefully and painstaikingly compared with its Hebrew equivilent. Both the Greek and the Hebrew words are entered as a reference into a database, along with their respective Strong's Dictionary numbers.
- This database list of Greek and Hebrew words, produced by PROJECT REMEZ, becomes a cross linking vocabulary, that will assist future generations of Bible students to be more meaningful in their understanding of the New Testament writings, and provides a direct link back into the Tanakh, and the Hebrew terminology that underpins the words of the New Testament.
- On completion, the vocabulary produced by PROJECT REMEZ, as an alphabetic cross linking database, in both Greek and Hebrew word order, will be presented to the world of the Bible student as an aid to study God's word.
- It may be possible to reconstruct whole sections of the New Testament based entirely upon reliable cross reference back into Hebrew, via the Tanakh. This can be compared with the work of scholars working to re-construct the Hebrew sub-text that, it is suggested is basis the Greek New Testament.
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