Debunking another Trimmism

[yuku]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend? That strategy might work in foreign politics, but why employ it in the search for truth?

Well, I'm afraid, Akhi, that the academic biblical scholarship is all mostly about politics... <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s -->

The stinker in Marqus 9:49 that Andrew referred to is a play on Aramaic roots that is only present in the Peshitta (see http://www.peshitta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38). The play on roots - the Greek lost it. The Old Scratch is missing it - and so with Bezae, not surprisingly.

Only one possible explanation - what you already know. The Bezae is Old Scratch's daddy.

Well, for one thing, SyS is actually very different here from Bezae...

This passage is very difficult, and hotly disputed by textual scholars. The Aramaic word play that you suggest here for Mk 9:49 may well be real, but is this really the smoking gun that will solidly establish the priority of Peshitta for this passage? I'm not so sure...

There's also a Greek pun here, as well, in the Byzantine text,

qusia -- alisqhsetai

THISia -- alesTHESETAI

AFAIAC the Old Syriac text here makes good sense in its own right. So I don't really see this passage as a big smoking gun to establish the priority of the Peshitta over the OS.

Best wishes,

Yuri.