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The Chronicle Project
This is an interesting project presenting a new way to read Hebrew. In doing so, the literal meaning of the words renders the current translation of the Bible very differently. The entire Bible has not been completed yet, but what they have done so far is very intriguing.
According to the authors, each Hebrew letter is a word in itself, and the letters used in each word define the word.
I think LDS people, particularly, will find this fascinating.
Hi FarSeer,
I'm jumping all around the forum this morning, looking at posts that catch my attention, and yours is very interesting.
I had a bare introduction to Hebrew many years ago, so I went to their website to take a look at their work. Now they claim that each letter in Hebrew represents a word, yet when I pulled up the Masoretic text of the Torah with a side-by-side translation into English by a Hebrew scholar and compared it to theirs, they aren't doing a letter to word conversion, but a nearly word to word translation. Their result bears a resemblance to the standard translation, but it's about as close to ungrammatical gibberish as you can get and still make some sense of it.
They also state that because of their method, "doctrinal pressures can no longer sway the translation." Yet I have to wonder about that just looking at this footnote from their translation of the Flood story--
Utah Mormon,
It reminds me in some ways of the "Bible Code" that sold a lot of books a few years ago. It claimed there were hidden prophetic messages in the original Hebrew which could be deciphered by placing them in complex matrixes and then reading the resulting text.
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Comments: Greetings I found this site looking for this "project" and to tell you the truth I found nothing about those people and their so called project.
Their site was created in November of 2009. There is no information about those people only one mail address and nothing in the news. And nothing about this SDH ( Self Defining Hebrew System) [..]
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Comments: Thanks for posting our stuff. I thought I would answer some of the questions. We discovered this stuff in 2007 and it took two years just to properly assemble the data. We then contacted over 200 "experts" and sent them our stuff. 200 experts shunned us. Then [..] got wind of our stuff and posted it. This is the first time we were given exposure about 5 months ago. Each letter is a word. You can find the list in the how to notes, which it appears the people here had problem understanding. We just posted a paraphrased version of the first book this morning so it doesn't sound like Yoda is talking. (western versus Eastern speech)
Thanks again, Chris [..] at the Chronicle project