what is "Mara"?

[Dan Gan]

Shlama johnl285,

I used to support Aramaic.org which purported to be propagating Aramaic and the works of George M. Lamsa. But I have stopped believing in the works of that organisation once I discovered that a Muslim is a member of its committee (Don't get me wrong. It is not that I am against Muslims to be a member of an organisation, but concerning religious matters there will always be a conflict of interest if you have a Muslim on board - I hope you get what I mean).

I think the so-called "in house scholar" referred to by Bob Allen (the so-called President of Aramaic Bible Society) is that Muslim whose name I could not recall. That could be the real reason why his "name shall remain anonymous."

I am glad that the web site is not operating for quite sometimes now. After reading some articles from the site in the past, I suspected that the site was promoting some Islamic agendas.

There is no doubt that the author of the article that you posted is a Muslim.

Here are the proofs that the author of that article is a Muslim (or Islamist) and is not an Aramaic scholar but an Islamic scholar:

1.

There is one Lord, one God, Alaha or Allah (your choice) who sent over 124,000 prophets to this world. Every nation was sent a prophet. Unfortunately, some of these prophets were raised by people to be gods, for example, Jesus, or Buddah, and these beloved prophets never made any such claim of themselves.

Anyone familiar with Islam will know that Muslims believe that 'Allah' sent 124,000 prophets. The first of which was Adam. The last of which was Muhammad (sic).


2.

The last one to re-write the Torah was Ezra whom the Jews consider to be the son of God.

This is another example of Muslim beliefs. Here is Quran Sura 9:30:

The Jews call 'Uzair a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the son of God. ... (Yusuf Ali's version)

And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. (Pickthall's version).

Muslim interprets Uzair in Quran to mean Ezra. How are they misguided! The Jews never worship Ezra.

3.

... YHW" with the additional "H." Both in Hebrew and Arabic, this word means the same.

This is a blatant lie by a so-called in house scholar! Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic languages. But why can't Islamic scholars know the meaning of the names of Hebrew prophets mentioned in Quran?

I have asked many Arabic speaking Muslims on the meaning of the names of the prophets that the authors of the Quran copied from the Bible and none of them could tell me their meaning. I have browsed through some Islamic books at the bookshops trying to find the meaning of these "Arabic" names of the prophets and none of them could give me answers. They just tell you that they are "prophet's name." A search on Islamic web sites on Islamic names will tell you the same thing.

They can tell you the meaning of the names of Aamir, Irfan, Yasir, etc but they cannot tell you the meaning of the names of the Prophets that the authors of the Quran copied from the Bible, e.g. Ibrahim, Ishak, Isa, Ilyas, Zakariya, etc.

Of course they can't! These names are Hebrew names. Not Arabic!

The meaning of the name of Prophet Eliyah (My God is YHWH) in Hebrew is the evidence that the true Prophets of the true God believe in YHWH as the true God not "Allah" as preached by Muhammad.

Zakariya from Hebrew "Zekharyah" - remembered by YHWH.
Isa from Yeshua - YHWH's salvation / YHWH saves.

This is what I would say to that "in house scholar" of The Aramaic Bible Society, Inc:

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/poketoungeb.gif" alt="" title="Poke Tounge" /><!-- s -->

Abraham Lincoln, (16th president of US (1809 - 1865))