[B-Greek] PASCA
Ken Penner
ken.penner at acadiau.ca
Tue Apr 3 08:18:34 EDT 2007
What evidence do we have that PASCA is "an exact transliteration of the **Aramaic** word for 'Passover' (_paskha_);"? I see problems with this supposition.
We have evidence that the first vowel of the Aramaic word for passover is I rather than A, judging by earliest vocalized Aramaic instance of PSX (Targums Onkelos and Jonathan both have pisxa' ) and the full orthography of Pesikta de Rav Kahana, which has PYSXH.
Ken
Ken M. Penner, Ph.D. (McMaster)
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frjsilver at optonline.net wrote:
> PASCA is not a natively Greek word. It's an exact
> transliteration of the **Aramaic** word for 'Passover'
> (_paskha_); that's the word Jesus used in ordinary speech,
> and it's what the NT uses. In Hebrew, 'Passover' is _pesakh_
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