01-10-2012, 05:17 AM
Hi Zardak,
Do a study of the Eastern Peshitta Text at this site below, and read Paul's Interlinear here at Peshitt.org....where you can get the full scope of what is contained in each book of the Aramaic Scriptures, as personally handed to the Church of the East from the Apostles of Christ themselves.
If you need some help knowing how to use the study tool there, let me know.
Here is the link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dukhrana.com/peshitta/">http://www.dukhrana.com/peshitta/</a><!-- m -->
Also, a translation that is of a more literal nature than a paraphrasitic or a "dynamic equivalance" one, is going to read more awkwardly in its translation. You can see this from the Greek texts as well...in some of the more literal translations of its text in English. Try the Youngs Translation for instance or the J.P. Green Translation...which tries very hard to be as close to what is found in the Greek texts, they translate from.
And it should be noted that when Paul would go into the cites he was sent to by God, you can see in the Book of Acts, that he often is said to be among the diaspora Jews, who dwelt in these lands...though many times they would kick him out of their Synagouges... <!-- s
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He also met in houses often...and it seems to me that Lydia may have been a Jewish woman in diaspora. I'm not saying that Paul did not speak with Greeks and other People groups, when he went among the Nations...but I think He may have sought out the Jews in these places 1st...being that Jesus said that His Apostles were to preach 1st to the Jews, then to the rest of the peoples of the earth...Remember, there was a point in which Paul was instructed to wash his hands in reaching out to the Jews though, of those who were rejecting the Good News about Christ, when exactly this was, I have not determined as yet.
It is my held belief that The Letters and The Gospels, were written down in both Aramaic AND Greek from the start by the Apostles and their helpers...It seems to be the case that in some cases they were dictated in Aramaic, and Scribed in both Aramaic and Greek at the same time by The Apostles helpers... and given to the Christians who read these Languages...not to mention the old Latin as well, but that seems to have come a bit later, and is shown to be a translation of Greek sources. Greek being the lingua franca, even in Rome at the time, but Aramaic was very wide spread in Asia Minor as well.
The Church of the East is said to have recieved the New Testament in Aramaic form from the hands of the Apostles, about 78 A.D. So early in fact, that they did not get 2 Peter, 2nd & 3rd John, Jude, or Revelation, with the collection they received...these 5 books being penned later than 78 A.D. or not being intended to be read by the Eastern Christians at the time...such as the Book of Revelation, which was commanded by God to be given to the Chruches of Asia Minor (the 7 Churches) and may have stayed there for some time, before copies were made of them... if it was written prior to 70 A.D., which some have maintained to be the case. If not it was written some 20 years after the Church of the East received the other books, minus the 4 others mentioned above, which has been shown to be written later than the Letters and Gospels were.
Shlama,
Chuck
Do a study of the Eastern Peshitta Text at this site below, and read Paul's Interlinear here at Peshitt.org....where you can get the full scope of what is contained in each book of the Aramaic Scriptures, as personally handed to the Church of the East from the Apostles of Christ themselves.
If you need some help knowing how to use the study tool there, let me know.
Here is the link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dukhrana.com/peshitta/">http://www.dukhrana.com/peshitta/</a><!-- m -->
Also, a translation that is of a more literal nature than a paraphrasitic or a "dynamic equivalance" one, is going to read more awkwardly in its translation. You can see this from the Greek texts as well...in some of the more literal translations of its text in English. Try the Youngs Translation for instance or the J.P. Green Translation...which tries very hard to be as close to what is found in the Greek texts, they translate from.
And it should be noted that when Paul would go into the cites he was sent to by God, you can see in the Book of Acts, that he often is said to be among the diaspora Jews, who dwelt in these lands...though many times they would kick him out of their Synagouges... <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->He also met in houses often...and it seems to me that Lydia may have been a Jewish woman in diaspora. I'm not saying that Paul did not speak with Greeks and other People groups, when he went among the Nations...but I think He may have sought out the Jews in these places 1st...being that Jesus said that His Apostles were to preach 1st to the Jews, then to the rest of the peoples of the earth...Remember, there was a point in which Paul was instructed to wash his hands in reaching out to the Jews though, of those who were rejecting the Good News about Christ, when exactly this was, I have not determined as yet.
It is my held belief that The Letters and The Gospels, were written down in both Aramaic AND Greek from the start by the Apostles and their helpers...It seems to be the case that in some cases they were dictated in Aramaic, and Scribed in both Aramaic and Greek at the same time by The Apostles helpers... and given to the Christians who read these Languages...not to mention the old Latin as well, but that seems to have come a bit later, and is shown to be a translation of Greek sources. Greek being the lingua franca, even in Rome at the time, but Aramaic was very wide spread in Asia Minor as well.
The Church of the East is said to have recieved the New Testament in Aramaic form from the hands of the Apostles, about 78 A.D. So early in fact, that they did not get 2 Peter, 2nd & 3rd John, Jude, or Revelation, with the collection they received...these 5 books being penned later than 78 A.D. or not being intended to be read by the Eastern Christians at the time...such as the Book of Revelation, which was commanded by God to be given to the Chruches of Asia Minor (the 7 Churches) and may have stayed there for some time, before copies were made of them... if it was written prior to 70 A.D., which some have maintained to be the case. If not it was written some 20 years after the Church of the East received the other books, minus the 4 others mentioned above, which has been shown to be written later than the Letters and Gospels were.
Shlama,
Chuck