So what did Jesus mean that He would leave peace. People go to therapist seeking help to find peace, married couples seek to find peace in their marriage where there is no strife, anger or tension, just a feeling of oneness with each other.Īll of this and more fits the word shalom. We talk of a peaceful environment, being alone in a forest or near a lake without anyone nearby as a place of peace. That is what I think of when I think of peace.
In our English peace is a sense of serenity, relaxation, freedom from worry and stress. When she mentioned that I thought of Samson Hirsch’s definition of shalom which we all know is peace. Yet, unlike all the other religions of the world peace is imparted to us by Jesus, we don’t have to work for it. Except Christianity, we make noise, are busy and do everything else but practice peace. My study partner commented on how all the religions of the world practice peace and harmonization. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. UPDATE: They seem to have taken the hint, and have changed their book cover to a much more boring red-ish-thing.ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – PEACE – SHALOMA שלמא Shin Lamed Mem Aleph Now, if someone is trying to produce a “translation” of the Aramaic New Testament to help spread their faith in Christianity, but they can’t tell Aramaic apart from an inscription in a different language which just so happens to be about spreading Buddhism that they came across on Google - perhaps they should reconsider what they’re up to. Earlier it was much higher, and because of this it has caused all sorts of delightful confusion. However, guess which title Google Image Search snapped up?Īs of writing this, if one simply searches for “aramaic” in Google Image search, this is the first nice looking carved inscription that appears in the search results, about half way down the page. This image, however, simply wasn’t such an example, so the author subsequently corrected this mistake by changing the description to “ Inscription in Brahmi on the pillar of Sarnath.” (Scroll down on the Wikimedia page, you’ll see it.) Whoever uploaded it simply made a mistake, as one of the languages that Ashoka did use from time to time was Imperial Aramaic. When this image was originally uploaded to Wikipedia, it was under the title “ Aramaic Inscriptures in Sarnath.jpg“. Many of the Ashoka inscriptions were bi- or tri-lingual… and this is where the Aramaic confusion comes in. Yes, that wonderful carved text is in Brahmi script from one of the Edicts of Ashoka at Sarnath - official declarations issued in the 3rd century BCE in effort to spread Buddhism.
Why is there Brahmi text about Buddhism on the cover of an Aramaic book about Messianic Christianity? I could be wrong, but the Netzari website appears to be a Messianic sect in the Sacred Name Movement persuasion that has produced a “new edition” from (apparently) extant translations of Aramaic texts where the names have been changed to (rather poor) transliterations of late Classical Eastern Syriac terms because they - among others - are “Ancient Galilean Aramaic renderings.”ĭespite… serious methodological problems, I can at least navigate around all of that and make sense of it… but there is one glaring problem that I don’t get: So let’s take a moment to pick this apart and make some sense of it. The Ancient Aramaic translates the correct name of ‘Eil witch refers to the ‘Absolutely Eternal’ Allaha, and it introduces the Aramaic rendering of Maran for Lord, Along with other Ancient Galilean Aramaic renderings. It also uses the word Allaha for HaShem (G-d). For example this new edition uses the name of MarYah Eashoa Msheekha (Lord Yeshua Messiah). This work is a new edition from translations of the Ancient Aramaic. Aramaic Peshitta.” Here is an excerpt from this book’s website:.If you can’t make out the text at the top, it reads: “Aramaic Bible: The Aramaic Covenants Long story short, I came across this book cover a few days ago: The “Netzari Emunah” In this case, it is also a prime example of how a Google search can go terribly wrong. As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, when it comes to Aramaic materials sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.
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