Before Abraham was, I AM--John 8:57
who is "I am" and in what language was the concept expressed
----and using what word(s)?
Let me guess, you're a Bart Ehrman acolyte. Yes?
nope---------have barely looked at his stuff------the little I do
know is that he does get into linguistic in a scholarly manner.
INDEPENDENTLY of bart------I noticed how important is
Linguistics when I first learned a bit of Hebrew-----and learned
a bit of how the Talmud and its scholars work. I am not a
bible scholar. Anyone who WANTS to be a bible scholar
of the NT should learn the Judeo/Aramaic of the time of Jesus
Then why are you, Ehrman like, demanding that we pick at weeds and ignoring the forest? Why do you assume the Bible--the most sold, most widely read and translated book in all of human history, has been translated so poorly?
You're picking at weeds, you realize, when you demand we answer these minutiae. And that's exactly what it is. Jesus said exactly what He meant, and it's been gone over and gone over. That is why the Jews picked up stones to kill Him. THEY knew exactly what He meant--He was saying He was God.
Did this not occur to you?