11-30-2013, 11:36 PM
Paul Younan Wrote:carlosmendoza Wrote:The naming of Yeshua don't fit in an Aramaic framework.
Shlama Akhi Carlos,
Hypothetically speaking, if an angel appeared to you in a dream and told you to "name your son Rex, for he will be a king one day", would that conversation necessarily have to occur in Latin ? Would you know enough, as a speaker of English (rooted in Latin), to understand him ?
Paul, lets seek in the Hebrew Bible some examples about what I am talking about:
In Genesis 30:8
Then Rachel said, ?With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.? So she called his name Naphtali.
In Genesis 41:51
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh ?For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father?s house.?
In Genesis 41:52
And the name of the second he called Ephraim ?For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.?
In the Hebrew Bible we see that each time someone is named, have a direct connection with it meaning. I can give you hundreds of examples like that. We see the same structure in Matthew than in other parts of the Bible. If the angel was talking in Aramaic, English or any other language the word play would be totally lost. We see that the names in the Hebrew Bible are related to a root word in those examples.
By the way you forum don't let me write on Hebrew, so I cannot make my point really clear.