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Officer asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

What was original language of zabur, taurat and ingil?

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    Wow, okay, for instance, the Zabur ... the holy book of David.

    The term zabur is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew zimra, meaning "song, music." It, along with zamir ("song") and mizmor ("psalm"), is a derivative of zamar, meaning "sing, sing praise, make music."

    According to Islamic tradition, the Zabur was the worship book used in Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.

    It is often called Dawud's Zabur (or the Psalms of David).

    This is not intended to imply that David wrote all of the Zabur, because Islamic scholarship sees several prophets and holy men as having contributed to the Zabur. More of the Zabur is attributed to David than to anyone else.

    So, at least in the beginning, not all, but quite a bit of Zabur was in the origional language of Hebrew.

    But as you know during that time period Arabic and Hebrew were brothers of the same father and quite similar.

    The Tawrat is the Arabic word for the Torah. Muslims believe it was a holy book of Islam given by God to Musa (Moses).

    Well, even though Hebrew, Musa was raised Egyptian, which was not Arabic then.

    You know, I don't think things like that were important then otherwise it would have been in the scriptures.

    But as a historian, I believe all the ancient scriptures like the Zabur or the Taurat had several sources that came from several languages.

  • 5 years ago

    Originally taurat is written in Hebrew.

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