08-14-2008, 05:28 PM
Dear Mark,
If I understand your question correctly: you want to know why, in the Aramaic NT, we do not find YHWH transliterated as is.
We do not write the entire name of God in Aramaic. We always use shorthand. One of the shorthands we use is actually found in the Hebrew of the OT, the "YH".
Another way we write it is by using a special title reserved for God alone, it's MRYA (pronounced Mar-Yah).
This is from back when were we Jews, we do not pronounce or write His Name. We are of the "Elohist" tradition.
+Shamasha Paul
If I understand your question correctly: you want to know why, in the Aramaic NT, we do not find YHWH transliterated as is.
We do not write the entire name of God in Aramaic. We always use shorthand. One of the shorthands we use is actually found in the Hebrew of the OT, the "YH".
Another way we write it is by using a special title reserved for God alone, it's MRYA (pronounced Mar-Yah).
This is from back when were we Jews, we do not pronounce or write His Name. We are of the "Elohist" tradition.
+Shamasha Paul