SEELANGS Digest - 23 Oct 2006 to 24 Oct 2006 (#2006-360)

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

My thanks to all who have replied to my question about the possible 
Aramaic form(s) of the name Jesus.

Regards to the list,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere



Alexander Kulik wrote:

> Subject: Who knows Aramaic?
>
> For the question of Daniel Rancour-Laferriere:
>
> * Joshua is a Hebrew name, and normally the pronunciation of personal 
> names in the mixed Hebrew-Aramaic vernacular of Palestine of that 
> period would not depend on Aramaic or Hebrew context. It is as if you 
> try to discern between the pronunciation of names in Church Slavonic 
> and Old Rusian (one s).
> * Originally it might have forms Yehoshua' (with a glottal at the end, 
> which most probably, according to Mishna evidence, was not pronounced 
> at least in some Palestinian regions already then) with a long form of 
> a theophoric prefix, and Yoshua', a short form. The Greek form Jesu(s) 
> allows to reconstruct one more short colloquial form: Yeshu.
> * There are grounds to suggest that at least some of evangelical 
> materials were originally composed not in Greek but in Aramaic and 
> Hebrew (at least portions of Mark and may be Matthew). As for Hebrew, 
> it was almost not spoken in Galilee, but today many scholars believe 
> that it remained one of spoken languages in Judea as long as until the 
> 4th cent., and thus it also might have been used during early 
> Christian activity there.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alexander Kulik,
> Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> Mt. Scopus 91905 Israel
>
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