External corroboration of Jesus' Jewish scholarship is provided by the fact that, although he was not an approved scribe, some were accustomed to address him as
"Rabbi,"
"my teacher/master!"
Nevertheless, it should be noted that according to the oldest sources, as reflected by Luke, only outsiders ad-dressed hin as
"lord",
ha'adon/adoni.
Apparently this is the title that he preferred.
This we know, again thanks to the report of Lucky Luke:
"How can one say that the Messiah is the Son of David?
For David himself says in the Book of Psalms {110}, 'The Lord {G D} said to my lord' {le'adoni},
'Sit on My right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!' David calls him lord {adon}!
How then can he be David's son?" {Luke 20:41-44}.
The title should not be confused as a sign of his deity
{ADONAI},
but an indication of his high self-awareness.
The epithet
"Rabbi"
was in common use in those days and was especially popular for describing scholars and teachers of the Torah. It had not yet become restricted to expert and ordained teachers.
The generation following Jehoshua haNatsri was the first to employ the title as an academic degree. Yeshua did not approve of the pleasure so many Pharisees took in being addressed as rabbi.
"Do not call yourselves master {rabbi}, for you have but one master {ravchem, "G D"};
call no man on earth father {or: ABBA}, for there is but one who is your father in heaven, and you
are brothers"
{Matai 23:6-12}.
In those days
"ABBA"
was another common form of address and
even the famous Bar Kokhba was addressed in a newly published letter as 'abba chavivi' {Dear Father}.
In the generation before Yeshu, a scribe had said much the same thing,
"Love manual work & hate mastery!" Many others shared this view.
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