It is the language of the ancient Israelites and the Hebrew Bible or The Old Testament from before the Common ... Ben-Yehuda coined many new words and wrote the first modern dictionary of Hebrew in ...

The modern Hebrew version would pronounce it a lot more like 'Yeh ... When the Gospel writers came to write the New Testament in Greek, they used a similar process to convert the Aramaic name Yeshua ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible ... famous in the New Testament (early Christians thought ...