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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] PS Re: Daniel 11:22
  • Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:45:57 -0500

Yonah Mishael wrote:

HH: The idea of national redemption for Israel is not lost in the term>
Christ. Nor is the idea of Davidic kingship.

YM: More specifically, the Davidic kingship about which I amcommenting refers
to the national king who reigns from Jerusalem.
Christ connotes a world savior rather than the Messiah who gathersIsrael in
from exile.


HH: Christ connotes whatever the Scripture says about the Messiah, and one of the things it says is that he will rule the world from Jerusalem.

HH: Christ is the English translation of the Greek word CRISTOS, which> was the
translation for the Hebrew word MESHIACH. You are arguing about> what you think each word
connotes, but the translations are obvious. The> content of the English word Christ comes
from the revelation in the> Bible given about this figure. Any other connotations the
word may have> are irrelevant to a Bible-believing person.

YM: Christ is an English *transliteration* (not translation). TheEnglish translation of
both משיח and χριστος is "anointed."


HH: The reference of all three terms is the same, the Jewish Messiah. The terms are normally used as nouns, not adjectives, in this usage. "The Anointed One" is clumsy. "Messiah" is a legitimate translation of Greek XRISTOS, and some Bibles are using it.

I am saying that the ideas associated with the two terms aredifferent, and
this would be apparent to anyone with no theologicalaxe to grind.


HH: The ideas belonging to the terms come from the Bible. When the New Testament uses the term CRISTOS, it gives it the meaning of the Tanakh term. Of course there are many new connotations that accrue to the word in the NT, and you refer to those. The term Christ embodies the additional connotations given to the word in the NT, but it is still the same figure called Mashiach in the Tanakh, at least from a NT perspective.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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