[B-Greek] HLI vs. HLIAS in Matt 27:46
Kenneth Litwak
javajedi2 at yahoo.com
Wed May 19 00:28:37 EDT 2010
I was looking tonight at Jesus' cry of dereliction in Matt 27:46 tonight to see why the crowd thought that Jesus was calling for Elijah. Jesus uses the word HLI, while the crowd uses ELIAN (27:47). Since 27:46 looks like a citation of Ps 22:1, I looked at that in Greek and it uses QEOS MOU QEOS MOU. So I could see why the words of Jesus might not be recognized as from the psalm, if the bystanders knew the OG version. Looking then at the Hebrew test of Ps 22:1, I do see )LY )LY, which would explain the transliteration in Matthew 27, but it would not explain the crowd's reaction, as the word in Hebrew for "my God" is not equivalent to the name Elijah, )LYH. So I find this an interesting puzzle, as I see no reason anyone should have confused the two, especially given that, to my knowledge, there is no Second Temple tradition of Elijah coming to help individuals. This is probably not a B-Greek issue per se, but it is based upon the Greek text. I would
be interested in any thoughts others have on this puzzle. Thanks.
Ken
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