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To: kosta50; fortheDeclaration
I have shown you that Hebraïstí in biblical Greek refers to Chaldee which is Aramaic.

No -- you have merely claimed such, and the word "refers" does not mean "translates".

Greeks called the languge spoken by the Jews in the 1st century Hebraisti because it was spoken by Hebrews.

So then they called the Greek language spoken by Jews "Hebraisti" as well??? No wonder they were confused.

The word "Aramaic" did not exist in Greek.

Wow -- so then how do you know that it existed at all if the Greeks did not have a word for it??? What did the Greeks call that language issuing forth from the lips of the Syrians of Mesopotamia. Wasn't it called "Syriac" also later referred to as "Aramaic"??? but always distinguishable from "Hebraisti".

The NIV substitutes "Aramaic" for every NT KJV reference to "Hebrew" (language). NAB has four references to Aramaic (only in the OT), and KJV has NO "Aramaic" in the OT or the NT!

You said it right: "substitutes" -- they "substituted" rather than do what they were supposed to do: "translate". That must be why many call it the NIV Substitution rather than the NIV Translation because it is not a faithful translation of the original Hebrew and Greek words.

1,299 posted on 02/05/2008 8:36:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
But English-language bibles "solve" this problem by offering just the kind of bible you need. The NIV substitutes "Aramaic" for every NT KJV reference to "Hebrew" (language). NAB has four references to Aramaic (only in the OT), and KJV has NO "Aramaic" in the OT or the NT!

The KJ uses talitha cumi in Mk.5:41,which is, I believe, an Aramaic expression, the same word that the NIV uses.

1,409 posted on 02/05/2008 11:56:14 PM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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