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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Schmuel <schmuel AT nyc.rr.com>
  • Cc: "b-hebrew-lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] NWT's approach of consistent translation
  • Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:12:24 +0000

Schmuel, thank you for your excellent comments. But I do want to take issue on one point, as below.

On 18/11/2005 01:19, Schmuel wrote:

...

Schmuel
There is no indication whatsoever, in any book or text in any language that
the Hebrew
YHWH was ever used in the NT, which was most assuredly entirely or almost
entirely
written in Greek.

There is a minority of scholars who hold that large parts or even all of the NT were originally composed in Hebrew or in Aramaic, and what we have is a translation. Almost all scholars recognise that Jesus and most other characters in the gospels and Acts spoke in either Hebrew or Aramaic, and their recorded words, at least as far as they are genuine, are a translation. So there is a real issue of what divine names were used by Jesus and the apostles, when speaking in Hebrew or Aramaic. I don't think the answer is easily recoverable, and I would be very surprised if anyone called Jesus YHWH. But the issue cannot be ruled out of court by saying that only the Greek KURIOS was used.

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Peter Kirk
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