memra

The Gospel According to John, vol. 29, R.E. Brown, 1966, pp 523-24. When John cites Scripture, as we have seen, sometimes the citation is taken from neither the Hebrew nor LXX, but from the Targums or Aramaic translations. In these Targums, memra, Aramaic for "word," has a special function...

Show Notes: This episode explores how the "Word of God" (Aramaic: "memra") was used to explain the activity of the God of Israel in the Jewish Targum Onkelos. After organizing the various ways that Onkelos understands and uses the "memra" of God in the Torah, we look at John 1:1-18 to see if our...

The Prologue to John’s Gospel by Ray Faircloth Source: http://www.focusonthekingdom.org/811.pdf The following article goes in some depth into John’s prologue. We think you will find it helpful in your explanation of what John really intended when he spoke of the word, not the “Word,” as if the...

“The Word” in John 1:1 Is Not Christ For most Trinitarians the “Word” (Gk logos) in John 1:1 is viewed as being Jesus in a pre-existent form, because at the end of the verse, we read that “the Word was God.” So, for proponents of the Trinitarian view of Jesus this must surely mean that Jesus...