Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

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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