02-13-2009, 09:56 AM
Thirdwoe Wrote:...Hi Thirdwoe. What about Isaiah 66. Craig Evans a quite respected NT scholar seems to indicate that the word does occur in the/an Aramaic targum of Isaiah 66:24
It seems to me that the term Gehenna is not original to the text in those places, but that in the Targums it is rather interpretive from the translator, rather than a translation of the text....Am I wrong about this? Or do we say that the Targum preserves the true Word of God in these places, where the others lack it.
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Quote:The items that the targum has added to the Hebrew text are the very items that lie behind Jesus' statement. Jesus' saying on Gehenna (Mark 9:47-48), where he quotes part of Isa 66:24, again reflects targumic diction. The Hebrew and the Septuagint say nothing about Gehenna, but the targum has: " . . . will not die and their fire shall not be quenched, and the wicked shall be judged in Gehenna. . . ."
This is taken from here.
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