Please read. Direct verses and explanation in Hebraic mindset... not English
1. Does the Torah command us in the past or in the prophetic last days to study Hebrew language?
2. Did Yahshua ever teach his followers that understanding Hebrew language is necessary for salvation?
3. First we were at the mercy of Christian Churches Translators. Now we have to be at the mercy of modern day Messianic Believers Translators?
4. Where in the full Bible, can anyone show multiple Scriptures commanding that in the last days, believers will have to learn Hebrew language or Hebrew words or have Hebraic mindset to understand Yahweh and Yahshua?
Why does Hebraic though matter?
‘Hebraic thought’ refers to the reasoning and philosophy developed within the Hebrew Bible, continued into the New Testament, and not found elsewhere in the ancient Near East.”
Dru Johnson
The Church has historically studied the Scriptures to see what and how ancient Israel thought about reality. Yet, over the past two centuries, pastors, scholars, and the rest of us have become tone-deaf to the theology of the biblical authors in their ancient context. What’s more, Christian theology itself has often worked independently of the biblical thought-world, built upon the scaffolding of modern philosophical projects or even ancient Greek ones.
We experience the consequences of this in our churches. Our theology thins as we treat biblical stories as if they were Aesop’s Fables, stand-alone stories with a single moral to be learned, unaware of the sophisticated system of thought tying them all together. Perceiving that the Scriptures lack relevance and savvy, we turn elsewhere in our culture’s philosophical traditions for guidance. Being shaped by these other traditions, we deepen our dependence on cultural philosophies of independence and fairness while growing numb to Scripture’s voice on matters such as justice, technology, and politics.
Through an informed, biblically literate study, students of Hebraic thought can come to see the Bible as the robust, sophisticated source of instruction and the authoritative voice that it is, informing the way we think about politics, ethics, epistemology, science, church, and more.
Furthermore, understanding Hebraic thought is vital for understanding the intellectual heritage of the Western world, including the church in the West. Every culture has a tradition out of which it was born; the West is no exception. Westerners have traditionally conceptualized themselves as descendants of Greek and Roman thought that developed in Europe. However, the Hebraic tradition also greatly influenced the development of Western thought in Europe and is rigorously engaged by the constructors of British tort law and by the American founders.
Fundamental presuppositions of Western thought—from the existence of the weekend to the conviction that all humans are created equal—hail from the ancient Israelites, distinctly not Greece. In order to understand the world in which we now live, we must understand Hebraic thought and its influence on Western development.
The boundary between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed Israel’s attainments in the realms of thought, her facility in literary expression, her profound religious insights, and her standards of individual and social ethics.
The Hebrew Bible contains within it a sophisticated and heretofore largely overlooked intellectual tradition that must be taken seriously in the history of Western thought, and can be appreciated by devout Christians, educated skeptics, scholars and laypeople alike.
What does the study of Hebraic thought look like?
People have always studied the intellectual world of the Bible, thinking about how concepts are developed and connected across the biblical texts. This is done by looking at how Scripture deals consistently, across the canon, with central human concerns such as ethics, politics, rationality, science, anthropology, and more.
One stellar example of this is The Bible Project, a scholar and artist team who use animation to explore key ideas across the Scriptures. Scholars have also had an interest in the thought-world of the Bible since antiquity.Recently, there has been a renaissance in thinking about the Scriptures philosophically.
A few key examples would be:
The various studies, books, and videos collected here reveal that more than one method for understanding Hebraic philosophy exists. Our goal is to encourage a plurality of methods and foci that will collectively enrich our understanding of the bounty of wisdom and thinking displayed across the Christian Scriptures.