02 Noach Torah 2025

In other writings like the books of Jasher, Josephus, and Jubilees, we see that Abraham becomes a believer probably because he lived with the family of Noah for a while. Nimrod is the king of the area around Ur in Chaldee, and he became a terrible and selfish person who did not follow God's commandments. He is building a tower to go into the heavens to fight with God according to other ancient writings. For that reason, Shem, the son of Noah, probably leaves the area and carries on teaching the people about the true God in Salem. Shem calls God, El Elyon which means God Most High. The city of Salem later became Jerusalem. 

Shem is also known as Melchizedek in the Jewish writings which means the righteous king or my righteous king and he leads a school of prophets there in Salem. Perhaps Yeshua is compared to Melchizedek in the book of Hebrews because Melchizedek lived a long time both from before the flood and after the flood and is also known as a righteous man. Yeshua existed before creation (see John 8:58 and John 17:5) and came for the first time to help mankind. He will come again toward the end of time to reign as our good righteous king (see Acts 2:30, Isaiah 9:6, Revelation 17:16, and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Shem is already in the area when Abraham arrives. Abraham leaves the area he is from because Nimrod becomes antagonistic towards him.

Hebrew as the original language.

Because Shem was one of the sons of Noah, he spoke the original language of the world before the language was confounded at the Tower of Babel. Shem brought the original language with him to the area of Salem, to what is now Jerusalem. Since Abraham lived with the family of Noah for a period of time, he also spoke the original language. Hebrew was then passed on to the Israelites through Abraham. 

It should be noted that we now know that the Phoenicians got their alphabet from the ancient Hebrew alphabet. Archeologists have found ancient Hebrew in Egypt dating to around 1650 BC, it was found at the crossing site on pillars that were put up by Solomon to mark the spot of the crossing, and at the area of the real Mount Sinai in Midian. So, the English alphabet came from the Hebrew alphabet and not from the Phoenicians. They have also found ancient Hebrew from when Israel entered Canaan near Jericho. Therefore, the Phoenicians adapted their alphabet from the Hebrew alphabet.