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  • From: Trevor Peterson <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: 'Memra'?
  • Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:05:09 -0400


>===== Original Message From Ian Goldsmith <iangoldsmith1969 AT yahoo.co.uk>
=====
>Hi. Just a quick question.
>I've been reading A. Edersheim lately and he refers,
>in a discussion of the hypostasation of the 'Word',
>'Logos' of God, to 'Memra'.
>Can someone please enlighten me as to the meaning of
>this word? I can't find an appropriate hebrew match
>and am starting to feel it may be an LXX term.
>Apparently it is also mentioned in the targums
>Onkelos, Jerusalem and Pseudo Jonathan, but I haven't
>got the material to look through for these.

Try Aramaic. I'm not familiar with the usage he has in mind, but it shows up,
for instance, in Syriac as a genre of poetry. Considering that he mentions
the
Targums specifically, that would be my guess.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics




  • 'Memra'?, Ian Goldsmith, 04/30/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • RE: 'Memra'?, Trevor Peterson, 04/30/2002
    • Re: 'Memra'?, Johannes Hellberg, 04/30/2002
    • Re: 'Memra'?, Jonathan D. Safren, 04/30/2002
    • Re: 'Memra'?, Christian M. M. Brady, 04/30/2002

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