12-07-2003, 04:15 PM
drmlanc Wrote:""I simply follow the English convention of capitalizing LORD when I encounted MARYA in Aramaic.""
How about abandoning the English convention and writing "Lord YHWH" when you come to Maryah? That is the best rendering isn't it? And of course it would make it easier for people (like me at one stage...) reading the Peshitta translation to see that Jesus is God.
I would argue for just using a transliteration as you do with "Miltha" etc. I've heard complaints in some circles about another translation that goes with the rendering "YHWH" as if the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (Yod-Heh-W/Vaw/v-Heh) were actually in the Peshitta.
Shlama, Craig