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Question about tribal name in Gilyana
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Burning one Wrote:Shalom to all,


this is only my first post, but i have been lurking in the shadows of the unregistered off and on for a while now, so i feel like i know some of you! <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->


anyhow, my question is one i recently posted on another Peshitta forum that apparently isn't getting much traffic, so i thought i'd break new ground and try providence here.

I have a question about the pronunciation of the name "Reuven" in the list of the 144,000 in the book of Gilyana (Revelation) 7:5.

the Aramaic reads his name as being "Ruvel."

the presence of the lomadh stood out obviously as opposed to the normal ending of a nun during my reading of the text. being the only time his name appears in the New Covenant, I didn't have anything on-hand to compare it with.

my question is whether this is a scribal error or merely standard pronunciation of Reuven's name in Aramaic? i know we see variations of spelling/pronunciation in the Hebrew TaNaK from time to time, ie, Nemu'El/Yemu'El, Yoseph/Yehoseph, Yitzhaq/Yitzshaq, and so on, so i was wondering what the issue is on this one from the Peshitta...

any help would be much appreciated!


Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy

Shlama Akhi Jeremy:
It appears that Reubel in Revelation 7:5 is a scribal error in the Philoxinian Recension (508 A.D.) and then copied as an error over 100 years later in the Harklean Version (616 A.D.). The Aramaic was translated from the Greek and the Greek reads Reuben. Understand that the original Aramaic of the Book of Revelation has been lost and we only have the Philoxinian (Crawford Codex) and the Harklean (New Covenant Aramaic Peshitta Text) of the Aramaic from the Greek. The Greek New Testament reads Reuben.

Shlama,
Stephen
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Re: Question about tribal name in Gilyana - by Stephen Silver - 09-26-2008, 07:55 AM

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