08-18-2008, 05:03 PM
Hi Mark,
Not really because of rabbinical decrees, we never really gave a you-know-what about decrees from any Rabbis. While on cordial terms with our Semitic brethren, the CoE's patrimony is about as anti-rabbinical as you will find. That was by design, of course.
The tradition of not writing the NAME in Aramaic is actually quite ancient, and predates NT times. If you go ahead and click any of the Targums to the left on the menu, you'll notice that in Aramaic the NAME was not written. It's only written in Hebrew.
Since the NT wasn't written in Hebrew, it's not surprising that you do not find the NAME in the NT - only shorthand, like on the logo of this website.
IF you are referring to the other titles, like "Alaha" instead of "Elohim", "Mar" instead of "Adon", etc. That's because those titles mean nothing in Aramaic. Why transliterate when you already have words for "God" and "Lord" ???
+Shamasha Paul
Not really because of rabbinical decrees, we never really gave a you-know-what about decrees from any Rabbis. While on cordial terms with our Semitic brethren, the CoE's patrimony is about as anti-rabbinical as you will find. That was by design, of course.
The tradition of not writing the NAME in Aramaic is actually quite ancient, and predates NT times. If you go ahead and click any of the Targums to the left on the menu, you'll notice that in Aramaic the NAME was not written. It's only written in Hebrew.
Since the NT wasn't written in Hebrew, it's not surprising that you do not find the NAME in the NT - only shorthand, like on the logo of this website.
IF you are referring to the other titles, like "Alaha" instead of "Elohim", "Mar" instead of "Adon", etc. That's because those titles mean nothing in Aramaic. Why transliterate when you already have words for "God" and "Lord" ???
+Shamasha Paul