Actually, Pat, the Lord's Prayer is very Jewish. There's nothing overtly Christian
about it, apart from it being given in a Christian gospel and its use by
Christians for almost 2,000 years. Any Jew could pray it--and Jesus likely
originally said it in Hebrew or Aramaic.
Steve Cartwright
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> The Lord's Prayer is from the New Testament, where it appears at Matthew
> 6.9-13 and Luke 11.2-4. Certainly there's no barrier to translating it into
> Yiddish, Esperanto, Cuneiform, or whatever one wants. As it's a Christian
> prayer, I don't imagine there's actually much demand for it in Hebrew or
> Yiddish. Although, wonder of wonders, here's Stefaan asking for it in
> Yiddish.
>
> pat
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> In a message dated 01/22/2000 4:27:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > A quick search at Yahoo! turned up
> > http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-yiddish.html
> > giving a few versions.
> >
> > The home of that site <http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/> claims to
> > have "The Lord's Prayer in 1025 languages and dialects", including a number
> > of Early European languages (hence the posting to the whole list).
> >
> > Donald Uitvlugt
> >
> > At 05:09 PM 1/22/00 +0200, you wrote:
> > >Dear List Members,
> > >
> > >An academic question:
> > >
> > >Who can give me the translation of Lord's prayer in Yiddish?
> > >Stefaan.
> > >
> > >
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