11-09-2010, 08:06 AM
rafa Wrote:Of course he is a fake scholar and he probably doesn't even KNOW that Peshitta Tanakh exists and that it uses "MarYah" in place of the Holy Name consistently every single time.Actually, he does know as he wrote:
Quote:Someone may ask, why in the Peshitta Tanak does m?rya only refer to YHWH and is not applied to anyone else? Setting aside for the moment that m?rya "the lord" is a a substitute for a Name, and presuming that the Tanak does not in fact contain any instances of m?rya referring to humans, this can best be explained by the Tanak paradigm. In this paradigm the central phenomena is YHWH and the books are written by His servants, His people. Therefore what if any opportunities are there to frame the testimony around another "lord" as "the lord"? The introduction of the messianic paradigm in the scriptures creates an additional central focus allowing the opportunity for his disciples to express his supreme lordship which was given from YHWH. Now both he and YHWH are the central phenomena of the New Testament and there is no opportunity to speak of another "the lord" as Paul said there are many gods and many lords, but for us there is one God (YHWH) and one Lord (Yeshua). Outside of working as a substitute for YHWH's Name, m?rya rarely if ever is used to address YHWH in the scriptures.