[B-Greek] hWSANNA

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 22:37:35 EST 2006


FYI

Your posting reminds me a useful article I read in "The Dead Sea Scrolls and
Christian Origins" by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.  (Eerdmans 2000).

The chapter 7: "Aramaic evidence affecting the interpretation of HWSANNA in
the New Testament"  (p. 119-129) with abundant footnotes.

Oun Kwon.


On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:54 Donald Vance wrote:

> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] hWSANNA
> I'm sorry Jim, but no it does not mean "Save us! now!" First of all, it
> is not a Hebrew expression, it is Aramaic. It is an Aphel imperative of
> yesha with the precative particle "na" meaning something like "Please
> save!" The word for "now" (Hebrew annah) does not appear anywhere in
> it. There is an equivalent Hebrew expression that occurs in Ps 118:25,
> which the LXX translates rather than transliterates (SWSON DH). It is
> actually the "name of parts of, or of the entire, festive wreath
> (Lulab) carried in procession on the Feast of Booths" (Jastrow, Vol. 1,
> p. 341, so also Dalmon, Grammatik des jüdish-palästinishen Aramäisch,
> p. 249: "Bezeichnung des Feststrausses" i.e., "designation of the
> festival wreath" used in the Feast of Tabernacles).
>
> Donald R. Vance, Ph.D.



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