Our Daily Bread Is At Risk: The Term rōzīq/g as Vorlage for ἐπιούσιος in Lord’s Prayer
Abstract
This note proposes a new hypothesis that ἐπιούσιος of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:11 and Luke 11:3 was an attempt to translate adequately rōzīq/g, the Middle Iranian loan word in Jesus' Hebrew / Aramaic, whose meaning was ‘nourishment provided by God's mercy day to day’, and not merely ‘daily [bread], needed for the day/for today’.
Keywords:
Lord's Prayer, Pater Noster, Aramaic, Iranian loan words in Semitic, Middle Iranian, Middle Persian, Arabic, Swahili, risk, daily breadReferences
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Dan Shapira is Full Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. He is the author of about 200 publications in such fields as Iranian Studies, Turkic Studies, Karaite and Khazar Studies, Armenian and Georgian Studies, and more. https://biu.academia.edu/DShapira
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