On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 Nick Maclaren wrote:

| Well, I have never heard that interpretation before! It is certainly not
| mainstream theology. Aramaic is only a dialect of Hebrew, not a separate
| language. "Bar" means "son of" in both Hebrew and Aramaic. What branch
| of Christianity teaches you your interpretation?

Well, I have never heard THAT before! All of the references I have
seen give New Testament Aramaic and Old Testament Hebrew the sort of
relationship that modern German and Old Norse have. I.e. a sort of
avuncular relationship, not even a direct one - let alone calling
Aramaic merely a dialect of Hebrew!

"Son"/"sohn" means "son" in both German and Old Norse.

But that was just the point I was making, Nick. "Bar" means "son of" in
both Aramaic and Hebrew. It was Bluebell that said that, 'The term bar
nasha does not actually mean " Son of man" it means " I think " " this
one thinks" in the normal parlance of the language.'

David
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