Very close languages on the world language tree. I often think studious Muslims understand the Hebrew Bible much better than most Western Christians, especially those who adhere to the King James Version. There is a funny quote attributed to adherents of the KJV. “If English was good enough for Jesus, its good enough for me.”
I also think those well versed in Hebrew and Arabic have quite an edge in ANE archeology as well since Aramaic and its predecessor Akkadian were the primary languages of the area for around 2000 years, perhaps more. The Amarna letters were not written in Egyptian, but in Akkadian. I read a Muslim investigating these things for himself propose that the “El”s or gods of various places were simply various manifestations of “the El” or Allah. Personally, hoping not to offend, I think the argument could be made that those who worshipped El Elyon specifically, whole heartedly, could be labelled Muslims, with El Elyon simply being an interpretation of the God, or Allah.
FocusMyView said
Very close languages on the world language tree. I often think studious Muslims understand the Hebrew Bible much better than most Western Christians, especially those who adhere to the King James Version. There is a funny quote attributed to adherents of the KJV. “If English was good enough for Jesus, its good enough for me.”I also think those well versed in Hebrew and Arabic have quite an edge in ANE archeology as well since Aramaic and its predecessor Akkadian were the primary languages of the area for around 2000 years, perhaps more. The Amarna letters were not written in Egyptian, but in Akkadian. I read a Muslim investigating these things for himself propose that the “El”s or gods of various places were simply various manifestations of “the El” or Allah. Personally, hoping not to offend, I think the argument could be made that those who worshipped El Elyon specifically, whole heartedly, could be labelled Muslims, with El Elyon simply being an interpretation of the God, or Allah.
The etymology of El must go back to the head god of the Canaanite pantheon.
Shalom said
Hebrew Bible is called Tanakh. Tanakh is not a Hebrew word, it is acronym.
Tanakh in Hebrew is called Miqra. Mikra (or Miqra, מקרא, meaning ‘reading’ or ‘that which is read’).
The root of מקרא is קָרָא. 7121. קָרָא qara is same/Similar to Arabic Quran.
Tanakh is an acronym of the first Hebrew letter of each of the Masoretic Text’s three traditional subdivisions: Torah (‘Teaching’, also known as the Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im (’Prophets’) and Ketuvim (’Writings’)—hence TaNaKh.
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