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What has happened to this incomparable pleasure in our day? It has been replaced, in the lives of many, with things of lesser value deemed to be of greater value.

The multiple problems with your suggestion, from someone who believes that Jesus himself is Yahweh. https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/Sign_Cross/sign_cross.html It simply doesn’t work, as this writer concedes. I’m glad you brought this up. It was a valuable contribution to the...

To the best of my recollection, none of the early Christians who translated Hebrew into Latin were converted Jews. At the very least we would have to say that some who were non-Jews knew how to read and translate the language. See those who did.

Technically, that’s possible. The point though seems to me to be that it is directed at Jewish rejection of Jesus as the Messiah promised by their God, rather than at non-Jewish population indifference or ambivalence toward him.

Hebrew ha -> ”the” There is no ha in the tetragrammaton.

“Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” The Hebrew initials of the inscription don’t spell out the tetragrammton. Did you mean Zechariah? Who didn’t study the Hebrew Alphabet? Early Christian translations of Hebrew exist.

I had a great uncle who served as a marine in the pacific theater in WW II. I recall him saying at various times in my youth: Semper FI and “Improvise, adapt, overcome”. Just a little something to keep in mind for those confronted with this complication. The U.S. Navy also has a saying: “Don’t...

The classical language of the Church in the West is Latin. The classical language of the Church in the East is Greek. The Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek by Jews. The Greek Septuagint and the Greek New Testament were translated into Latin by Christians.

My five-year-old grandson is attending a private school where Latin and Greek are taught to all students. I asked a school administrator why they didn’t also teach Hebrew. The administrator acknowledged that Hebrew is a biblical language, then added that the school is focused on providing a...

There’s nothing at all wrong with using the Latin initials. There would also be nothing wrong with using Hebrew and Greek initials. Some artworks, in fact, use all three. I.N.R.I. is by far the most common in the West. Greek would be more common in the East. Where would Hebrew be common? No...

“Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.” (John 19:20) The inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. So why are the Latin initials used rather than Hebrew and Greek...

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” - Hans Christian Andersen