01-29-2004, 02:13 AM
Shlama Akhi Andrew,
We believers are reluctantly at odds with the Masoretic text for a number of reasons. Primarily being that by vowel-pointing the text, verses like Tehillim 110:1 can change dramatically and thus nullify Mattityahu 22:44 (Which it does, in the Masoretic text; regarding adonee and adonai.). Vowel-pointing was something the Masorites added 5 to 600 years after the time of Yeshua. Anti-Missionary Rabbi Tovia Singer uses this argument supposing that his readers know nothing about Hebrew. I must admit though, at first he got me off guard since I do not know much about Hebrew.
Secondly, because all of the other available Tanakh texts (Including the Dead Sea Scrolls) contradict the Masoretic text in the reading of numerous verses such as "Pierced" in Tehillim 22. Which is ironically, another argument from Tovia which the answer seeps deeper than the objection itself.
I imagine most people don't want to go so far as to say that non-believing Jews changed the bible; but the verses are too well placed. I don't buy it. The evidence from older manuscripts speak for themselves.
We believers are reluctantly at odds with the Masoretic text for a number of reasons. Primarily being that by vowel-pointing the text, verses like Tehillim 110:1 can change dramatically and thus nullify Mattityahu 22:44 (Which it does, in the Masoretic text; regarding adonee and adonai.). Vowel-pointing was something the Masorites added 5 to 600 years after the time of Yeshua. Anti-Missionary Rabbi Tovia Singer uses this argument supposing that his readers know nothing about Hebrew. I must admit though, at first he got me off guard since I do not know much about Hebrew.
Secondly, because all of the other available Tanakh texts (Including the Dead Sea Scrolls) contradict the Masoretic text in the reading of numerous verses such as "Pierced" in Tehillim 22. Which is ironically, another argument from Tovia which the answer seeps deeper than the objection itself.
I imagine most people don't want to go so far as to say that non-believing Jews changed the bible; but the verses are too well placed. I don't buy it. The evidence from older manuscripts speak for themselves.