[B-Greek] Aramaic or Hebrew in NET Bible

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Jul 30 19:47:25 EDT 2009


On Jul 30, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Mark Lightman wrote:

> Why not?  "Greek" does not mean Ionic or Attic but both.
> You can nurse a baby or you can nurse a drink.

Well, I don't think it's quite as if Hebrew and Aramaic were two  
dialects of the same language.Wouldn't they be more like Latin and  
French or Latin and Romanian?
My sense is that there is no distinct way in Koine Greek to say "in  
Aramaic"; hEBRAISTI means "in the language of the Judeans" -- being  
Aramaic for most but Hebrew for a few.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)

> --- On Thu, 7/30/09, Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Aramaic or Hebrew in NET Bible
> To: "B- Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 8:56 AM
>
>
> As I read the NET Bible, the translators simply can not decide  
> whether or not to translate hEBRAISTi "Hebrew" or "Aramaic." What is  
> going on behind the scenes that is causing this confusion? Should it  
> be Hebrew or Aramaic? It can't be both, can it?
>
> Mitch Larramore
> Augusta, GA.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek






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