Hebrew the Eternal Language

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The Tongue of Creation, Covenant and Restoration — and How to Begin Learning It Short description The tongue in which the covenant was given, traced from the first word of creation to its revival, with a practical door into reading it for yourself. Contents and details The tongue in which the covenant was given. The Torah, the Prophets and the Writings were given in Hebrew. The Name of the Most High is written in its letters. The angel told Yosef, “thou shalt call His name Yeshua, for He shall save” — a word that only sounds in Hebrew. The book of Yovelim calls it “the tongue of the creation”, lost at Bavel and opened again in the mouth of Avraham the Hebrew. Hebrew the Eternal Language traces that tongue from the first word of creation through Sinai, the Prophets, the exile, the Septuagint and the Masoretes, the Hebrew beneath the Greek of the Brit Chadashah, and its astonishing revival. Throughout, it weighs honestly what faith teaches and what scholars have found. It keeps apart two claims that are usually fused: that Hebrew is the tongue the Most High chose and gave, which the book affirms, and that every language descends from it, which the evidence does not show. Then it opens the door to learning: * The letters: the twenty-two letters of the alef-bet, their names, sounds and order, and the vowel points. * Reading: the Shema and the Priestly Blessing read word by word, with four verses as first reading practice. * Words to Carry: six to eight Hebrew words at the end of every chapter, with two hundred words of the Scriptures gathered in an appendix. * Kiswahili and Hebrew: the documented Semitic cousins in Kiswahili, such as salama and shalom, and why your mother tongue is not your rival. * A year’s plan: real tools and a plan for beginning to learn Hebrew. Written in Nairobi for all the children of Adam: not to despise our mother tongues, but to return to the source. Contents: Preface · Prologue: The Day the Mouth Was Opened. Part One, The Tongue of Beginnings: And Elohim Said · The First Lip · Names That Prophesy · Babel and the Confusion of Tongues · The Tongue Kept: Ever and Avraham. Part Two, The Tongue of Covenant: The Name · Written by the Finger of Elohim · Words with Roots · The Music of the Prophets · By the Rivers of Bavel. Part Three, Hebrew and the Greek: The Septuagint and the Hebrew Behind It · The Masoretes and the Vowels · Did Yeshua Speak Hebrew? · The Hebrew Beneath the Greek · Names Restored. Part Four, The Tongue Restored: A Dead Language Lives · The Pure Lip · Hebrew and the Mother Tongue · The Twenty-Two Letters · Reading Your First Words · Hebrew in Prayer and Worship · Hebrew in the Household · How to Learn Hebrew · The Eternal Tongue. Epilogue: The Word Abides. Appendices A–F (the Alef-Bet; Two Hundred Words; the Hebrew names of the books; names and their meanings; Kiswahili and Hebrew; readings for practice), Glossary, Works Cited and indexes. Dr. Malkiy’el Yashar Tsadiq · House of Truth Books Series · 182 × 257 mm, 282 pages with covers · ISBN to be assigned Beit HaEmet Brit Chadashah Publishing · Nairobi, Kenya