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  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:18:34 -0500

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:55:27 -0600 "John Brand" <jbrand AT gvsd.mb.ca>
writes:
> > John Brand wrote:
> > > 'Christos,' of course, is Greek for the Hebrew mashiach. The
> Aryan
> > > cognate would be 'atman' which is understood to be the higher
> self or
> > > spirit.
>
> Jeffrey Gibson writes:
> > Cognates are words which linguistically share a common root. I'd
> be
> > grateful if you'd show how "atman" and "mashiach" are related
> > linguistically.
>
> John responds:
> I stand corrected. 'Atman’ is not a cognate for ‘mashiach.’ ‘Atman’
>
> as a ‘life principle’ would have semantic fields which overlap with
>
> the Greek ‘logos’ and ‘mashiach’ would be closer to ho logos, would
>
> it not? Thus, Christ is the incarnation of logos. Heraclietus used
> logos as the life principle of which we are all manifestations.
>
> There is a closer relationship between the Aramaic ‘meshia’ and the
> Aryan
> Maitreya. And this is where there is overlap between Isaiah’s
> ‘anointed’
> and the Zoroastrian Maitreya. Maitreya means ‘friendly, loving’ and
> is
> derived from maitri which is the Sanskrit form of Mithras. Arnold
> Toynbee
> posits Mithras as one of the competitors for Lord of the Roman
> cult along
> with Jesus (“Mankind and Mother Earth”). Which brings me back to
> the
> original question that Jim and Tim were discussing
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I fail to see how you find any connection between Maitreya and Mashiach
either as cognate words or as having the same semantic domain. Perhaps
you could enlighten me?

george
gfsomsel
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