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Tue, 8-Jan-08 00:29:54
Quote:Most Jews consider the Holy Spirit to be a thoroughly Christian concept. "The designation of the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, stems from a Hebrew figure of speech, the ruah ha-qodesh ("holy spirit" ) . In Jewish usage, however, this concept was never identified with a separate person, but with a Divine power which could fill men, as, for instance, the prophets." - The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 1943, 1969, see: "Trinity", pp. 308. See also: Shekhinah. In Genesis 1:2 there is the reference to a "wind of God" (ruah elohim) which hovers over the face of the waters at the moment of Creation; until the mid-1st millennium CE this was translated by Jews as "wind", as the context demands (cf. the comparable "wind from God" which blows over the waters in Genesis 8 ) , but later came to be translated as "spirit of God" under the influence of Christianity.
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