Shalom, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and clear examples; blessings be upon you! Two thumbs up 👍👍

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

3 ай бұрын

You are very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏☦☦☦👏👏👏♥♥♥💛💛💛 God bless you and Amzing way

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Thank you for the kindness and the blessings!

Thatwas great!,👍 Abraham was born an Aramean. His first language was Aramaic. Also Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah all spoke Aramaic as their first language. So maybe you can explore the parts of Genesis with their stories. It is worth while to high lifhted the Aramean origins of the Israelite people. Also their was the Israelite girl enslaved in Damascus who told her master to go to Elisha to get blessing to recover from lepracy. That conversation was in Aramaic. Thank you for your work and good luck.🫡

Truly wonderful.

@theguyver4934

3 ай бұрын

Just like biblical and historical evidence proves that jesus and his apostles were vegatarians biblical and historical evidence also proves that the trinity, atonement, original sin and hell are very late misinterpretations and are not supported by the early creed hence its not a part of Christianity I pray that Allah swt revives Christianity both inside and out preserves and protects it and makes its massage be witnessed by all people but at the right moment, place and time The secred text of the Bible says ye shall know them by their fruits So too that I say to my christian brothers and sisters be fruitful and multiply Best regards from a Muslim ( line of ismail )

@HAChrist

3 ай бұрын

Peace be upon you and thank you for your kind words; and may we all be set free from all forms of idolatry!@@theguyver4934

Thank you sir. I'm starting to understand the nature of the Targums.

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

3 ай бұрын

Excellent!

Love it

The biggest difference between the translations of verse 12 is in tense: Onkelos and Pseudo-Jonathan use the present tense like the Hebrew, Targum Neofiti uses a past perfect, which is the most logical, and the Peshitta uses a past simple for some reason (using English tense names for convience, there's no exact correspondence of course)

Wow , that was thought provoking , as a non linguist beginner just interested in learning more about the lives and times of the Bible I found it interesting that the Targum Johnathan goes to such detail about the Og as the person who tells Abram of Lot's capture. I have been watching in order to see if reading the Targums would be worth studying ,Interesting to know how the targumist knew and understood the history about this person Og.

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

3 ай бұрын

I really enjoy reading the Targums. They often contain details and perspectives that really amplify the Scriptures.

Wow, טוּבענא for the deluge was fascinating. You see, in Quran Noah's flood is called الطوفان which has been identified by scholars as a loan word from Aramaic טופנא. But the specific etymology of the latter was a question for me. And now I see it may have come from טובענא which is from the root ט.ב.ע meaning drowning.

@emmanuelalbazi8560

3 ай бұрын

You are right, the Arabic word طوفان is borrowed from Aramaic ܛܘܦܢ and actually the origins of this word is not semitic. The Aramaic language borrowed this word from a Sinitic language (simplified Chinese) 大風 and it is spelled daii-fung. Note that the english word typhoon is also borrowed from that word.

Soon there'll be a throng of friends of Aramaic all chanting _Elevate Aramaic_ in several flavours of Aramaic. A party, if you will. "The Party", even. No, wait, that sounds somehow wrong O__O but _Elevate Aramaic_ would make a good text on a t-shirt. In Aramaic(s).

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

3 ай бұрын

It's supposed to be a play on the root r(w)m ܪܘܡ רום

@katathoombz

3 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorMichaelWingert after a bit of digging I approve of this wordplay and state that my active vocab is most definitely dreadfully narrow. Shame on me for not reading and cramming enough.

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

3 ай бұрын

Meh. Forget cramming. Just read a little every day. In a few decades it will all start to make sense (or at least that's what I tell myself).@@katathoombz

@katathoombz

3 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorMichaelWingert nnnoice! Considering the method I concur wholeheartedly. For work I've waded through the Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions from ORACC and by accident I might have gotten a better grasp on the nature of the Akkadian / Semitic stems. Vocab's rubbish still, though xD

Professor Michael Wingert... I sent you e-mail, you haven't replied me yet...