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Targumism in Revelation
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Targumisms in Revelation - John L. Ronning - John Ben-David - Douglas Hamp - Gospel of John written in Hebrew (George Wesley Buchanan)
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Albert Zaiser
4 yrs ago
Hi Douglas. Excellent paper. It shatters the myth that Yeshua predominantly spoke Aramaic. You might like to know that during my talks with George Wesley Buchanan when he was working on a commentary on the gospel of John, he concluded that it was first written in Hebrew and I heartily agree. As you know, Aramaic and Hebrew are different enough to make it difficult for an Aramaic speaker to understand a Hebrew speaker. The mistakes of scholars are troubling. Someone should write a book entitled "Scholarly Blunders" which would be about 1,000 pages and counting. My question is how to spell the name of Jesus in Hebrew. The OT has both Jeshua and Jehoshua and first century ossuaries sometimes have both on the same ossuary. It makes more sense to me that Jesus would have been originally named Yehoshua which was later reduced to Yeshua but I can't be certain about that.
4 yrs ago
Hi Douglas. Excellent paper. It shatters the myth that Yeshua predominantly spoke Aramaic. You might like to know that during my talks with George Wesley Buchanan when he was working on a commentary on the gospel of John, he concluded that it was first written in Hebrew and I heartily agree. As you know, Aramaic and Hebrew are different enough to make it difficult for an Aramaic speaker to understand a Hebrew speaker. The mistakes of scholars are troubling. Someone should write a book entitled "Scholarly Blunders" which would be about 1,000 pages and counting. My question is how to spell the name of Jesus in Hebrew. The OT has both Jeshua and Jehoshua and first century ossuaries sometimes have both on the same ossuary. It makes more sense to me that Jesus would have been originally named Yehoshua which was later reduced to Yeshua but I can't be certain about that.