Hebrew
Robert Lee, Since truths draw us closer to Christ and misinformation pulls us away, I say: Biblical Hebrew is NOT precise. 1) Besides lacking vowels, the original vowel markings and thus original pronunciations are lost to history. 2) The original full Hebrew text body is lost to history. There are huge differences between our Masoretic text and every other early witness of the text (such as 2,600 differences in the Great Isaiah Scroll alone). 3) Biblical Hebrew is highly polysemous: that is, single words often having very different meanings, depending on context, fostering inaccurate translation. Then some words are hapax legomena (unique words that lack clues to interpretation). 4) Quoting the Jewish Encyclopedia (whose scholarship R...