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Hi Chris, it good to find someone here also interested in the Peshitta OT!

I honestly don't know why 'elohim' is used but clearly the earlier and overall I would say more authentic OTs which are the Peshitta Tanakh and the LXX give no indication of a pluralised god. Even this is inconsistent sometimes - in Iyyob [Job] the singular 'eloah' I think is used a lot whereas throughout the rest of the Masoretic text elohim is used a lot more. Whenever I look for explanations of this the same old answer comes up - 'well elohim is a plural of respect' they say.

But when I follow up an ask "why then is eloah used at all? Why is el used at all? Do these signify less respect or something?" the answer is not at all convincing!

I think we can accord harmony between the PNT and POT. Its a case of 'constructive interpretation' I would say. The Greek NT does accord well with the LXX but whether you follow this obviously depends on which camp you are in - peshitta primacy or greek primacy. The trouble of course with Greek is that, not being a Semetic language, the vast range of meanings and interpretations are not allowable, and hence the original Semetic text from which it was translated may have had another meaning entirely, but the Greek took only one of these -e.g.- gml meaning 'camel' and 'thick rope' - in which case 'kamelos' was inferred when really I think 'a thick rope to pass through the eye of a needle' sounds a lot more sensible as a metaphor.

So Chris, can I take it thus that you are a Unitarian or are you Trinitarian in your outlook?
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