Who knows Aramaic?

[Kim Braithwaite]

You'll find several good leads by googling "Jesus in Aramaic." 

Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator

"Good is better than evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al Capp)

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From: "Robert A. Rothstein" <rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Who knows Aramaic?


> Daniel Rancour-Laferriere asks about the Aramaic version of the name 
> "Jesus." The Wikipedia entry for "Yeshua," which seems authoritative 
> (and which cites sources that one could consult), suggests only that 
> "Yeshua," a Hebrew and Aramaic shortening of the earlier Hebrew 
> "Yehoshua," _could_ be the original version that was transliterated into 
> Greek in the Gospels and adds that "the claim that the form _Yeshua_ is 
> the original name for Jesus is debatable." The traditional vocalization 
> of this late Biblical Hebrew form, according to the article, was with a 
> narrow [e] in the first syllable and with a voiced pharyngeal fricative 
> (not available in either Greek or English) at the end.
> 
> Bob Rothstein (no, I don't know Aramaic)
> 
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