MarYah

[gregglaser]

For a comprehensive research article on the subject of MarYah in the Peshitta NT please see <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.aramaicbibleperspectives.com/uploads/Peshitta_MariYah_Research_Report_ed._2012.pdf">http://www.aramaicbibleperspectives.com ... ._2012.pdf</a><!-- m --> The author welcomes comments from serious scholars. Shlama Amkhon.

Enjoying your research study, it's very thorough!

I see immediately that I overlooked the use of mrya in Rev 13:16 referring to human 'masters' who accept the mark of the beast. Thanks for the correction! I just examined the Crawford codex as well to verify, and you're correct, it says "mrya" with double markings above the resh (one for the resh, and one extra). So that puts my post above in error here:

in all three books it is used consistently and exclusively in reference to the Father, except in these passages where mryarefers to Yahshua the messiah: [omitted]

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Now before I began this line-by-line study I presumed that mrya was not a word-equivalence reference to YHVH, but now that I?ve read the text for myself in each occurrence in these gospels, I feel the exactness of the Peshitta has corrected me (once again).

Thanks again for the correction! I especially liked your statements in your paper, "The above comments are not intended to be conclusive, but are only given here as an invitation to further study. Perhaps deeper investigation into the [Aramaic] language and manuscripts will provide insights to understanding each of them more clearly." Well said, looking forward to reading more of your studies ...

Greg