John 19:19 (YHWH?)

[Paul Younan]

Paul, this is exactly what you were saying in another thread about Assyrians calling their language "Assyrian" when it's really Aramaic, 1st century Jews calling their language "Hebrew" when it was really Aramaic, and so on.

Thas wat I'm sayin'

It is Hebrew, Assyrian, Aramean, Chaldean, Syriac, Mandean. So many names for one language.

It's whatever someone wants it to be.

If to the Apostle John, the word "Golgotha", is Hebrew....so be it.....Hebrew it is. Who are we to say otherwise? We today who call it "Assyrian."

I think, personally, that we need to make it more clear that by the word "Ibrayith", in Aramaic, we could mean one of two different things.

"Ibrayith" can refer to this language from Mars that Dawid is referring to, the language of the Old Testament.

"Ibrayith" can also refer to a dialect of Aramaic.

For example, your modern dialect is "Tyarith", whilst mine is "Tkhumaith", etc.

"Ibrayith" in the NT refers to the dialect spoken in southern Judea, which was slightly different from the dialect of those northern territories closer to Syria, like Galilee/Samaria.

Anyway, enough of this.....

Dawid, if it helps, instead of calling it Aramaic....just think of it as really old Hebrew. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->