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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: "Brady R. Johnson" <brady AT seanet.com>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: OT Trinity ?
  • Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:09:46


>An interesting interpretation, but I don't think it stands up. Each
>reference that you offer in which the Targums reference "the word of the
>Lord" is a translation of the Tetragrammaton. The the Word or Name of the
>Lord was too holy to pronounce and may well have been translated with the
>euphemistic "word of the Lord", just as today it is translated "Adonai" or
>in the Stone translation "Hashem".

Actually I have seen in various places the the use of 'memra' there was as
a ephemism to avoid anthropomorphisms. (Also the word memra does not mean
the same as 'word' or logos. It is more like 'speach'. word would be millah.)





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