Saturday, July 5, 2014

Gematria Written or Spoken?

Looking at the previous picture of the numerical associations to the Hebrew Alef-Bet, it is very striking that it is  is broken up in sets of 10, but it does make sense if one is counting by one's fingers -- we alone of the primates have 10 digits.

This makes each set unique to itself.  None are subsets of another, so the first 10 numbers become specific integers within the larger framework of sets of the Aleph-Bet and the number 11 is represented as  10+1  and so on/

The Hebrew Alef-Bet set system  is almost a carbon copy of the Greek Attic System, see the little chart at the left but that does not mean nor should it imply that Hebrew was based on the language of Greek.  No, but what it does imply that when Hebrews began writing down their oral histories and stories, similar to Homer's tale of the the Iliad and the Odyessey, that they took a system that was already known to them that they admired and used it for their written Alef-Bet, and quite honestly that is all it implies.

It does not mean that without Greek the Hebrews had no language?  No, because a spoken language  and written language are two different things, if one needs proof look to the child, first we talk then we write, we learn how the two relate to each other (As an aside Edgar Rice Burroughs uses this to great advantage in his tales of Tarzan of the Apes, who could read English but not speak it).

So all of this Greek Gematria lineage suggests that the written Alef-Bet was based on the Greek Alphabet; but has no bearing as to whether Hebrew as a spoken language is one of the main Indo-European tongues.

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