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Inmanuel: Question for Paul
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Shlama Qashisha (elder) Valetin!

At the time, the common people no longer understood Hebrew, only Aramaic. Hebrew was the language of the priests and religious elite, and even then it was used as a liturgical language (like Latin is today) - not the vulgar of the common folks.

If the people readily understood Hebrew without the need for "targumming", then Mattai could have just written the entire thing (and not just "Emmanuel") in the Hebrew language. <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile -->

In the case of this name, it is constructed of the roots "Am" ("with") and "El" ("God"). Sandwiched in-between these two roots is a pronominal suffix.

In the case of Hebrew, that suffix is "anu" to make "Amanu" ("With us".) But in Aramaic, the name has to be interpreted: because in Aramaic the pronominal suffix is "an" to make "Aman".

Because the two languages differed in their approach to the 1st-person plural pronominal suffix, the word had to be "interpreted" so that Aramaic-speakers could understand the significance of the name. <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile -->
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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Inmanuel: Question for Paul - by Vsanzcm - 11-14-2003, 11:24 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-14-2003, 11:58 PM
[No subject] - by Rob Vanhoff - 11-14-2003, 11:59 PM
[No subject] - by Rob Vanhoff - 11-15-2003, 12:01 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-15-2003, 12:07 AM
[No subject] - by Rob Vanhoff - 11-15-2003, 12:19 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-15-2003, 01:31 AM
Thanks for response, Akhi Paul - by Vsanzcm - 11-15-2003, 02:45 AM
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[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-15-2003, 02:23 PM
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