Who would name the child according to custom?

[Paul Younan]

"She shall give birth to a son,
and thou shalt call his name JESHU;"
John Wesley Etheridge

Now that's 3 translators that have translated this
as the angel talking to Joseph and telling him that
he would name the child.

Now come on. Are you gonna tell me that this
person also didn't know what he was talking about?

And he translated it the same way by saying
she named him. Now how are all 3 of these guys
translating it the same way and your not?

Dave,

Did you check the lexical entries I provided?

I don't know and really don't care why those 3
translators translated the way they did - perhaps
some were influenced by the Greek - maybe they
made an honest mistake - who cares? In the case of
2 of them, they were not speakers of the language.

All you have to do is email any professor in Aramaic
and ask them about [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]0rqt [/font]-
don't take my word for it. Buy Thackston's grammar
from amazon.com - he has the lessons pertinent to
our discussion. Also, consult the lexicon created
by Dr. Kiraz that is hosted on this site with his
permission (like I asked you to.)

It can be translated in either the 2nd-person masculine
or 3rd-person masculine. That's the bottom line.

I don't care if 100 translators chose the wrong meaning.
I speak the language everyday - since I learned to speak
as a baby. Aramaic is the first language I learned.

I'm not the only translator who translated the verb
in the 3rd-person feminine. The Way International as
well as others (who translated into both modern Aramaic,
Arabic and Hebrew) translated it that way, too. Here
is a scan from the Way International's translation:



Also, consult Jan Magiera's (LWM) translation here:

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(this aligns 5 major translations)

If you can't handle it - that's your problem.
I have no more to say on this topic.