12-21-2013, 09:37 PM
distazo Wrote:Hi Akh Paul,
Probably you are right and there is not a typo (yamta instead of yama). Excuse me that I'm not convinced yet.
When it's dark and they were in the middle of the lake, I cannot imagine that they in the darkness and storm, could see a over few miles distance Yeshu coming while he walked over water in a creek or bay.
Who said they were in the "middle" of the lake? According to verse 21, they were quite near to their destination:
Quote:21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.
If the boat "immediately" (Aramaic: "beh b'shata" (at that very moment) reached the shore, then they could not have been in the "middle" of the lake.
It makes perfect sense to me that as they approached the shore (where the waves are typically the roughest), Jesus met them while walking on a smaller inlet or bay. In rough waters, they (experienced fishermen) would have sought out a bay for calmer water to anchor/tie their boat. Fishermen do not anchor their boats in rough waters in a large lake - they look for a secluded shoreline in a bay or inlet, where the waves are much calmer.
In any case, it's not up to *me* to convince you that the word "yamtha" is appropriate for the context. It is up to *you* to convince me why an Aramaic translator would translate the same Greek work differently in v.19 than he would in v.18, v.16, v.22, v.25, etc. You've given me no indication whatsoever that any sort of misreading of the Greek grammar caused the alleged "mistake" in the Aramaic.
I'm sorry, but again, you're not making any sense whatsoever.
+Shamasha