Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: OT Trinity ?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:09:46
>An interesting interpretation, but I don't think it stands up. Each
>reference that you offer in which the Targums reference "the word of the
>Lord" is a translation of the Tetragrammaton. The the Word or Name of the
>Lord was too holy to pronounce and may well have been translated with the
>euphemistic "word of the Lord", just as today it is translated "Adonai" or
>in the Stone translation "Hashem".
Actually I have seen in various places the the use of 'memra' there was as
a ephemism to avoid anthropomorphisms. (Also the word memra does not mean
the same as 'word' or logos. It is more like 'speach'. word would be millah.)