Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 6:37 |
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At 5:30 pm -0400 24/4/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> Luke, writing in Greek, would use the Septuagint version of the name.
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>Wouldn't he use the form used by the Elizabeth herself?
I doubt it. After all he clearly used the Greek form for her husband's
name - Zakharias - and for her son, Io:anne:s (John).
The Hebrew form of the name is transliterated as Zechariah in the King
James version of Old Testament (but keeping the Greek form in the NT!).
Presumably the Aramaic would've been close to the Hebrew. I forget, off
hand, the Hebrew/Aramaic form of John.
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>> ...distorting 'oath of Baal' into 'island of garbage'?
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>Distorting whatever into "island of garbage". After all, they did
>distort Ba'al-zebul (Lord Ba'al) into Beelzebub (Lord of Flies)
Exactly.
Ray.
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