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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "Mind" in Hebrew and Aramaic
  • Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:12:55 -0500

Dear Herman,

2006/4/7, Harold R. Holmyard III <hholmyard AT ont.com>:

HH: I ran across an interesting phrase in Luke 1:51, which makes one
wonder what the Hebrew or Aramaic original was. Mary says that God
scattered "ones proud in the mind of their hearts." The word "mind"
is DIANOIA, which can also mean intention, purpose, thought,
attitude, or understanding, according to the dictionary that comes
with the UBS text. It is translated "imagination" by the KJV. So it
could have been a word like maHshavot ('thoughts'), as you have it
above.


Why would there be a "Hebrew or Aramaic original"? No evidence for the
suggestion that Luke was not an original Greek composition exists. I
agree it is a very "Jewish" text, but Jewishness and language don't
always have anything to do with each other. Luke's hebraistic style
may just as well be inspired by the LXX.


HH: I was talking about Mary's original words, not some presumed Hebrew or Aramaic original of Luke's Gospel. Albert wanted to assume that people spoke Aramaic or Hebrew at this time in Palestine, and I was going along with this idea. But it is quite likely that Albert is correct that people spoke Aramaic or Hebrew, and that Mary would have spoken this way.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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