Marya (Lord-God)

[Dawid]

Shlama akhan,

sorry for the lateness in response. i'm swamped with school.

but here's what i found after going back and looking at some of the instances of MARYA in the Peshitta A"NK.

the Hebrew term is listed first, and then the Peshitta's rendering. as you will notice, Marya is not always translating the Hebrew YHWH, but sometimes Adown (Master), and sometimes Eloheem (Strong One / God).

Sh???moth (Exodus)
15:2 Yah / Marya

Tehillim (Psalms)
94:7 Yah / Marya
94:12 Yah / Marya
114:7 Adown / Marya
115:17-18 Yah / l???Marya
118:17 Yah / D???Marya
118:19 Yah / l???Marya
122:4 Yah / d???Marya
135:4 Yah / Marya

YeshaYahu (Isaiah)
10:16 HaAdown YHWH / Marya Alaha
10:33 HaAdown YHWH / Marya Alaha
19:4 Adowneem / d???Marya
26:4 Yah YHWH / d???Marya Alaha

Malaki (MalachI)
3:1 HaAdown / d???Marya

NechemYah (Nehemiah)
8:10 l???Adoneynu / Marya
10:29 (30 in the Hebrew) ???b???Torot haEloheem??? / ???Namuwsa d???Marya,??? and also ???Moshe eved haEloheem??? / ???d???Muwshe abdeh d???Marya???

this is VERY interesting. there doesn't seem to have been a staunch RULE implemented or followed at the time of the Peshitta A"NK's production, since the range of translation of MARYA includes YHWH, Adown, Adowneem, Eloheem, and even YHWH to Alaha! interestingly, Adown also was translated as Alaha. i'm wondering now if there are other nuances like this elsewhere....

hope this helps. the vast majority of the time, MARYA is indeed reserved for YHWH, but the above examples show that other Aramaic terms were considered valid translations of the divine Name and titles at the time of the production of the Peshitta A"NK.


Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy

In the Isaiah passages where YHWH is rendered Alaha it almost seems like it's following a later convention of reading YHWH as Elohim when it follows Adonai, since YHWH is normally read "Adonai" now. But I was under the impression that this convention was more modern than the POT.