ellauri047.html on line 998: Aber als die römische Besatzung aus Deutschland verschwunden war und im Rheinland starke Judengemeinden zurückblieben, in denen sich die hebräisch-deutsche Mischsprache "Jiddisch" entwickelte, kommt es zur Verdeutschung hebräischer Namen durch zufälligen Gleichklang: Da wird Aaron zu Arnold, Benjamin zu Benno, Levi zu Ludwig, Moses zu Moritz, Simon zu Siegmund. Später entstehen deutsch klingende Familiennamen: Simon zu Schimmerling und Schimmerl, Isachar zu Sacher, Socher, Socherl und Sucher, Levi oder Loeb zu Lemann und Lehmann, Isak zu Eisemann, Eisermann, Jakob zu Kaufmann (-mann war eine beliebte Diminutivform). Oder die Namen wurden ins Deutsche übersetzt: Baruch oder Ascher (der Glückliche) wurde zu Selig, Seligmann, Eljakim oder Obadja zu dem überaus beliebten Gottschalk.
ellauri094.html on line 320: So how long did the Babylonian Captivity last? Well, we have to look to Jeremiah 29:10 and Baruch 6:2.
ellauri094.html on line 324: In Baruch…
ellauri094.html on line 326: But wait! What’s the book of Baruch? It’s a deuterocanonical part of the apocrypha that is widely quoted in the bible. It’s also a major part of Jewish, Christian, and Catholic canon. I have linked the Catholic text above. The book of Baruch is generally considered just as infallible as the rest of the bible.
ellauri094.html on line 328: Ahem, in Baruch, we are told that the captivity will last seven generations, not merely 70 years. In order to reconcile these two disparate numbers, the Jews would’ve had to be having children at the age of ten or younger! That’s far too young, even by biblical-day standards.
ellauri094.html on line 348: “And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years, and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will bring you away from thence with peace.” (Baruch 6:2; quoted from Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)
ellauri094.html on line 356: The skeptic tries to pit Jeremiah 29:10 as affirming the claim “The Babylonian Captivity was seventy years” against Baruch 6:2 as affirming “The Babylonian Captivity was seven generations.”
ellauri094.html on line 358: Baruch 6:2 does affirm “The Babylonian Captivity was seven generations.”
ellauri094.html on line 360: However: Baruch 6:2 is not part of the Bible :D
ellauri094.html on line 362: Jewish Rabbis never cited, quoted, or use the book (Sean Adams, Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah, 18).
ellauri094.html on line 363: Nor was this quoted anywhere in the New Testament (Sean Adams, Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah, 18).
ellauri094.html on line 364: Chapter 6 of Baruch is actually the non-Canonical Epistle of Jeremiah.
ellauri094.html on line 366: Obviously if Baruch is not part of the Bible there is no Bible contradiction here even if there is a logical contradiction between these two statements.
ellauri094.html on line 367: It took me some time to track down the Greek text of Baruch 6:2. Baruch 6:2 does say in the Greek “until the seventh generation.” The word “ἕως” is interpreted as “until” and it is a Greek particle marking a limit, that is, a temporal point of termination. (Who cares about the Greek anyway. It was dictated in hebrew or something.)
ellauri094.html on line 369: Interestingly nowhere else in the Bible does it affirm the claim found in Baruch 6:2 that “The Babylonian Captivity was seven generations.”
ellauri094.html on line 373: One of the reason to doubt Baruch 6:2 is actually written by Jeremiah and to believe it was written much later is that the Book of Jeremiah talks about the remnant will begin returning within 70 years and yet Baruch 6:2 state the return will be within 7 generations which seems to excuse those who were Jewish reading this book that never did went back to Jerusalem for many generations but continued living outside Jerusalem. Fascinating as well is the fact that this book was written in Greek and not in Hebrew which indicate the likely audience was the Jewish Diaspora.
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