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Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic?
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Paul Younan Wrote:Gehenna is an Aramaic form of the original Hebrew "Ge Hinnom", and the Arabic Jehannam is also derived from the original Hebrew. The Greek simply transliterates it, rather than using the native Greek "hades."
Hi Paul, do you think it is possible that sheol and not gehenna corrsponds to hades?

I think that hades might actually correspond to the Hebrew/ Aramaic term sheol and not gehenna.
Luqa 16 has the rich man in sheol which would , I think, be the Aramaic equivalent of Hades.
The peshitta of Luqa 12 has gehenna mentioned, which seems, to indicate that Luqa saw sheol as different from gehenna.
I think that Gehenna, has, every time it is used (starting with the Aramaic targum of Isaiah chapter 66 ) an eschatological association, whilst sheol is merely the place of the dead.
I dont think there was a Greek equivalent of Gehenna, because it meant more than just the valley of ge hinnom. It was a term loaded with meaning, to do with the fulfillment of the writings of the hebrew prophets.
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Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by distazo - 02-12-2009, 10:39 PM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by Christina - 02-13-2009, 12:08 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by Thirdwoe - 02-13-2009, 12:25 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by Paul Younan - 02-13-2009, 02:00 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by Thirdwoe - 02-13-2009, 07:21 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by judge - 02-13-2009, 09:49 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by judge - 02-13-2009, 09:56 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by Thirdwoe - 02-13-2009, 03:49 PM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by Thirdwoe - 02-13-2009, 04:13 PM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by judge - 02-14-2009, 03:41 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by Thirdwoe - 02-14-2009, 04:25 AM
Re: Gehenna: Greek or Aramaic? - by judge - 02-14-2009, 05:01 AM

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