Joseph Riggs wrote: > I can't find anything useful on "Allelujah" on wiki. Could you share what > you turned up?
Hmm I don't know if it qualifies as "useful", it's just that there exists more than one Anglo-european translations and I wasn't aware of that until I read it on wiki: Hallelujah, Halleluyah, or Alleluia, is a transliteration of the Hebrew word הַלְלוּיָהּ (Standard Halləluya, Tiberian Halləlûyāh) meaning "[Let us] praise (הַלְּלוּ) Yah (יָהּ)." It is found mainly in the book of Psalms and has a similar pronunciation in many, but not all, languages. The word is used in Judaism as part of the Hallel prayers, and in Christian praise. It has been accepted into the English language, but its Latin form Alleluia is used by many English-speaking Christians in preference to Hallelujah. So... I didn't find anything that "useful" per se. I just extrapolated from the above paragraph that the variants reflect a the divergence between Christians and Jews. -- Dr. Core N��wZ�Ƣ�)�.+-0��+-���jg(� ܆+m����.�֦r���iGzZD���������z�.�֦r����m�+"��^��i�+-
