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Today we're talking about the question where does Hebrew come from with Christopher allston?

Yeah, Chris is a linguist. You know, he teaches at George Washington University

Would you think would be extremely boring by the way? Yeah, that's a linguist. It's it's not

But it's not because you started actually reading texts in the language in which they were written and the more he get into it

It's like I've been lied to my whole life. There's my life not really but you know, it's you see things that English

Sometimes necessarily has to cover over because you know you have to get to your point you get like

Well, I cut you off. Where does he teach anyway? Yeah, he said George Washington University

He's a associate professor of Northwest Semitic languages and literature. That's a mouthful

We'll talk about that another time not now

But anyway, yeah, we talked about where does he become from and has effect

You know like when parts of the Bible written stuff like that just fascinating stuff. All right. Let's head into the conversation then

Let's read the text word for word line by line and

See what it says. Let's look at chips fall where they may

The interpretive traditions are really fascinating, but right now we're gonna look at what the actual text says

I believe you can discern that and I can discern that

My fidelity is to the text into what it says

All right, Chris well listen thanks for being on the podcast here and I just got a question for you

This is a question that is on everyone's mind

Every Christian I know is asking this question. Where does Hebrew come from? Yeah, great question

Isn't it though? It's a fantastic question

Where you know people hold on here do not press

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