The Alef and Tav connection & Peshitta

[distazo]

According to some, there is this next connection between the hebrew OT, and Jesus.

In revelation, 22:6 for instance, Jesus sais: "I am the Alef and the Tav..."

I was surprised to see that these letters occur 7372 times in the OT. For instance

Zacharias 12:10


Genesis 1:1

The idea is, that you could read Jesus Christ at all places where Alef and Tav are written.

But how does the OT peshitta relate to this?

[yaaqubyl]

Shlama akhi,

The Peshitta Tanakh is similar but doesn't use the Aleph in the same way, instead being "Yod"

The following is from Targum for Gen. 1:1



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Shlama,

[Lars Lindgren]

Shlama distazo,

The Alef-Tav you are referring to is, in Biblical Hebrew, actually an object marker. When the direct object of a verb is a definite noun (i.e. has the definite article) or is a proper noun, it is usually preceded by the object marker -?????? ('eth-).

Aramaic makes use of a similar object marker, but instead of Alaf-Tav it is Yodh-Tav, -???? (yath-). The particle -?? (l-) can also take on the role to identify a direct object that is definite. Which one is preferably used seems to depend on the dialect.

In order to relate to some of my recent studies; the Aramaic found in transcriptions from Palmyra and Petra (Nabatean) makes use of -???? while for example inscriptions from Hatra (same period, middle Aramaic) does not use -????. On the flip side the Targums (Onkelos & Jonathan) makes heavy use of -????.

However, as far as I know, Syriac does not use the -???? marker. But never the less the opening verse in Peshitta OT (Gen 1:1) does contain Yod-Heh, but my guess is that it is there in order to read closer to the opening verse of the Hebrew text, as the remianing text after Gen 1:1, at a quick glance, goes over to exclusivly use -?? when a marker is used at all.

Lars

[distazo]

Thanks all for the comments.

So, what about the link to Jesus? I think this goes one bridge too far to assume it really is a 'hidden' marker for Jesus (the Messiah).