Our Daily Bread Is At Risk: The Term rōzīq/g as Vorlage for ἐπιούσιος in Lord’s Prayer

• Authors: Dan Shapira

Abstracts

EN

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

PL

Lord’s Prayer; Pater Noster; Aramaic; Iranian loan words in Semitic; Middle Iranian; Middle Persian; Arabic; Swahili; risk; daily bread

EN

Lord's Prayer; Pater Noster; Aramaic; Iranian loan words in Semitic; Middle Iranian; Middle Persian; Arabic; Swahili; risk; daily bread

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Verbum Vitae
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1097-1101

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Dan Shapira

• Bar-Ilan University

• https://orcid.org/0000000272969385

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vv.14470

Biblioteka Nauki

2158368