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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Aramaic - Abba
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:52:25 -0500

Dear Yigal,

RE: [b-hebrew] Aramaic - AbbaOf course, you read the words of Jesus, as recorded by the evangelists. Assuming that your Greek is good enough to get "behind" the translations and to get a "feel" for the text in Greek, the question of whether Mark intended for Jesus' cry to be formal or not is still more a literary question than a historical one.


HH: One thought that occurs to me is that Jesus elsewhere in the gospels seems to speak Aramaic rather than Hebrew where there are speech fragments in a language other than Greek. That suggests ABBA was Aramaic, and thus according to what has been said would have meant "father." If that is the case, then the Greek NT translation of ABBA as "father" would make sense.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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