Aramaic or hebrew words?

[Paul Younan]

This person is till insisting that boanargeres is not aramaic.
Here is what he says.

The Hebrew plural is BNY, usually transcribed as "beni". "bnai" is used for the Aramaic plural. Note the first syllable of Boanerges has a clear vowel presence, indicating that you don't have a schwa in the underlying original language, ie therefore not bnai, not Aramaic. It's just old scholarship.

Shlama Akhi Michael,

This person is throwing out smoke screens based on the presence or absence of vowels in the Greek transliteration. Since the person is so reliant upon the perceived absence of the schwa as presented by the Greek transliteration, perhaps you should suggest that the Hebrew had a Semkath at the end...seeing that the Greeks also placed an "s" at the end of the name....and we know how accurate their transliteration of Semitic names are to begin with.

In all seriousness, obviously, they weren't called "Boanerges", they were called "Bnai Regesh".

And for the person to call this bunk "old scholarship" is ridiculous, seeing that the Jews do *NOT* prounounce the word "beni" but "bnai" - just like Aramaic speakers do.

See the website of Bnai Brith International here: http://www.bnaibrith.org/

This person is learning Hebrew from a google search. <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->