Vanya (biblical person)

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Wanja (/ ˈvanja / Hebrew : וניה, Esr 10.36  OT ) was one of the Jewish returnees from Babylon who had to expel his foreign wife at the behest of Esra ( Esra 10.36  EU ).

In the Masoretic text he is mentioned as a descendant of Bani (בני), but Bani's descendants are already dealt with in Esr 10.29  EU . A copyist's error has therefore been assumed since Ernst Bertheau and it is suggested to read Bigwai (בגוי) in Esr 10.34 .

The name is probably of Persian origin and means "lovable" here. This name can also be found on an Aramaic papyrus from the 5th century BC. Chr.

The name was erroneously given in the Luther Bible from 1545 as Naia , in the revised version from 1912 as Vanja . The Luther Bible has been writing Vanya since the revised version of 1984 . In the translation by Vinzenz Hamp and Meinrad Stenzel , the name appears as Neja .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Correspondingly, in the English-speaking context, transcriptions such as vaniah or vanya , cf. for example David Noel Freedman (ed.): Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible , Eerdman's, Cambridge u. a. 2000, p. 1352 ( available from Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Cf. E. Bertheau: The books Esra, Nechemia and Ester , Hirzel, Leipzig 1862, p. 125 ( available at archive.org ); Carl Friedrich Keil , Franz Delitzsch : Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament : The post-exilic history books: Chronik, Esra, Nehemia and Esther (= Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament, Part 5), Dörffling u. Franke, Leipzig 1870, p. 484 ( available from Google Books ); Joseph Blenkinsopp: Ezra-Nehemiah: A Commentary , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1988, p. 196.199 ( available from Google Books ) with reference to Esr 2.14  EU and Esr 8.14  EU .
  3. ↑ Arthur Ernest Cowley : Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century BC Clarendon, Oxford 1923, p. 68 = No. 22, line 40 ( available at archive.org ).
  4. ↑ Luther Bible from 1545 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on enominepatris.com . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / enominepatris.com
  5. ^ Revised Luther Bible from 1912 on bibel-online.net
  6. ↑ Revised Luther Bible from 1984  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on die-bibel.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.die-bibel.de  
  7. ↑ The Holy Scriptures . 3. Edition. Christiana, Stein am Rhein 1974, ISBN 3-7171-0576-0 , p. 687 .