11-08-2012, 07:38 PM
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Mike,
The Khabouris manuscript faithfully represents the original Aramaic NT, as given to The Church of the East by The Apostles of Christ.
This Eastern Aramaic text is nearly exactly the same letter for letter in the whole NT from the 1st century to the 21st century. It agrees with the readings of the 170 A.D. Diatessaron text of the four Gospels, which was produced by Tatian from The Eastern Aramaic NT text.
There is a reliable witness of an Aramaic NT dated as early as 78 A.D. which has gone missing since the middle ages. We know that the Church of the East has had an Aramaic NT since the 1st and on through the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries, as witnessed by a number of Church fathers, who speak of it and quote from it. And we have the copies of these much older Aramaic NT's in the surviving 5th-7th century Aramaic NT copies of them.
This same Eastern Aramaic text has come down to us, through a very faithful transmission of copies by the scribes of The Church of the East. When an older copy had worn out, it was buried, not destroyed or kept on the shelf.
The Greek texts are all over the map as to its multitude of variant readings, many times showing that they are variant translations of the same Aramaic source, where an Aramaic word can mean two different things in Greek...and we see this time and time again.
We can be very certain that the Khabouris is as close as you can get to the Aramaic NT that existed in the time of the Apostles...which I believe wrote the very Aramaic words themselves and had them translated into the Greek and Latin languages during their lifetime.
Based on what Paul Younan has said here, after he looked closer at the Colophon, The Khabouris looks to be a 10th century copy (if the carbon 14 dating is right) of a mid-5th century copy, made during the "great persecution" as it states, which perhaps itself was a copy of a 1st century Manuscript. They kept these copies for a very long time and were very careful with them.
The oldest copy we have today of the Hebrew OT, is from the 900s A.D. And Mike, the oldest "Dated" NT in existance, is an Aramaic NT, all other dates of manuscripts are speculative.
If you like the Greek text best, then go with it, it has the very same Message over all in it's readings as the Aramaic NT does...but which one do you say is the most right of all the various Greek versions? I choose to go with the Eastern Aramaic NT, as I have found it to be the best text, and witnessed to be the earliest text in its readings.
Shlama,
Chuck
Mike,
The Khabouris manuscript faithfully represents the original Aramaic NT, as given to The Church of the East by The Apostles of Christ.
This Eastern Aramaic text is nearly exactly the same letter for letter in the whole NT from the 1st century to the 21st century. It agrees with the readings of the 170 A.D. Diatessaron text of the four Gospels, which was produced by Tatian from The Eastern Aramaic NT text.
There is a reliable witness of an Aramaic NT dated as early as 78 A.D. which has gone missing since the middle ages. We know that the Church of the East has had an Aramaic NT since the 1st and on through the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries, as witnessed by a number of Church fathers, who speak of it and quote from it. And we have the copies of these much older Aramaic NT's in the surviving 5th-7th century Aramaic NT copies of them.
This same Eastern Aramaic text has come down to us, through a very faithful transmission of copies by the scribes of The Church of the East. When an older copy had worn out, it was buried, not destroyed or kept on the shelf.
The Greek texts are all over the map as to its multitude of variant readings, many times showing that they are variant translations of the same Aramaic source, where an Aramaic word can mean two different things in Greek...and we see this time and time again.
We can be very certain that the Khabouris is as close as you can get to the Aramaic NT that existed in the time of the Apostles...which I believe wrote the very Aramaic words themselves and had them translated into the Greek and Latin languages during their lifetime.
Based on what Paul Younan has said here, after he looked closer at the Colophon, The Khabouris looks to be a 10th century copy (if the carbon 14 dating is right) of a mid-5th century copy, made during the "great persecution" as it states, which perhaps itself was a copy of a 1st century Manuscript. They kept these copies for a very long time and were very careful with them.
The oldest copy we have today of the Hebrew OT, is from the 900s A.D. And Mike, the oldest "Dated" NT in existance, is an Aramaic NT, all other dates of manuscripts are speculative.
If you like the Greek text best, then go with it, it has the very same Message over all in it's readings as the Aramaic NT does...but which one do you say is the most right of all the various Greek versions? I choose to go with the Eastern Aramaic NT, as I have found it to be the best text, and witnessed to be the earliest text in its readings.
Shlama,
Chuck