Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Dear Menachem,

Thank you for your clarifications. But I still think the example below 
would at least tend to encourage rather than discourage the spread 
(among unsophisticated Jews who heard this Targum read in the 
synagogue) of the teaching that God's "word" (or "statement") was a 
separate entity active in creation, in some sense a divine person but 
distinct from YHWH. That is where John's gospel starts. I guess where 
it goes beyond the bound of acceptable Judaism is in identifying that 
"word" with an individual human being.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: OT Trnity ?
Author:  mbrody AT earthling.net at internet
Date:    04/03/1999 13:29

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Genesis 1:27 "vYEVRA ELOKIM ET haADAM"
Targum Yerushalmi: "vYEVRA HASHEM bMAMARO ET haADAM"
in order to avoid saying "G-d created the man" [as if He personally created 
in a human sense], but rather "G-d created the man by his statement" [again 
an intermediary between Source and result].

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