Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,and otherlanguages.)

yl-ruil wrote:
> "My god" isn't *eli/eloi*, but *ilahi* in Aramaic IIRC.
But, isn't the Hebrew for "God" "el"?  So, wouldn't My God in Hebrew be
"eli", or something similar?

> Funny how the only
> bit that they got wrong in the Aramaic quotations in the New Testament was
> "my god".
Supposing that it didn't mean "my God", wouldn't the disciples have
fudged on that bit, since they were trying to act within a Judaic
context?

> <trying not to cause any more offense> Note that I didn't say I agreed with
> this. 2000 years is a long time for things to get mixed up.
Quite true.  And I doubt that we know everything about *colloquial*
Aramaic dialects of the time.  Who knows?  Maybe _eli/eloi_ was valid as
"my God" in another dialect?

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