Redigerer Mammon (avsnitt)

==Etymologi==
Det er noe variasjon blant språkforskerne om ordets opprinnelse. Men det kan synes mest sannsynlig at evangeliefortellingenes ''Mammon'' opprinnelig kommer fra [[gammelsyrisk]] ''mámóna'' og [[arameisk språk|arameisk]] ''mamon'' der det betyr 'rikdom'. På misjnaisk [[hebraisk språk|hebraisk]] bruker en ordet 'ממון ''mmôn'' i betydningen penger,<ref>Michael Sokoloff, JHU Press, Jan 3, 2003, [http://books.google.com/books?id=WdNOtHEPlf4C&lpg=PP1&ots=b8twu9OBok&dq=inauthor%3A%22Michael%20Sokoloff%22&pg=PA682#v=snippet&q=money,%20monetary%20penalty&f=false ''A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods,''] s. 682</ref><ref>[http://en.glosbe.com/he/en/%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9F Translation and definition "ממון", Dictionary Hebrew–English online] (Modern Hebrew)</ref><ref>Howard H. Covitz, PhD, March 30, 2000, [http://home.comcast.net/~hhcovitz/site/?/page/Shabbos_and_Proper_Nouns/&PHPSESSID=b0640460cc5eec30d3ae9588f1653d1b ''Shabbos and Proper Nouns'']: "When scriptural translators chose not to translate ממון (mammon), this common Babylonian-exile word for money, they effectively neutered the Galilean’s admonition against idolizing riches, against wealth-worship, by thus-making scripture resonate with proscriptions against another transgression, against the worship of strange Gods."</ref> rikdom<ref>{{cite book|last=Fernandez|first=Miguel Perez|title=An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew|year=1999|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-10904-9|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OPQXid589wIC&pg=PA5&dq=mammon+money{{!}}wealth+aramaic|Hebrew&hl=en&ei=VnbzS4jPG6DsmwPz5IGaDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CGIQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=mammon%20money%7Cwealth%20aramaic%7CHebrew&f=false|page=5}}</ref> eller gods<ref name="france">R. T. France, "God and Mammon" i ''The Evangelical Quarterly'', Vol. 51 (Jan.–Mar. 1979), s. 9</ref>, skjønt det kanskje også kan ha betydd «det man setter sin lit til».<ref name=Hastings>Hastings, James, ed.; New York, Scribners, 1908–1921, [http://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediaofr08hastuoft#page/374/mode/1up ''Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics''], Volume 8:374</ref>