[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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