09-01-2004, 03:20 AM
Akhi Rob,
Both Josephus and Tatian were citizens of Rome, and lived in Rome. And both of them wrote the works by which they are famous....the "Antiquities" by Josephus and of course the "Diatesseron" by Tatian.....in the ARAMAIC language, while LIVING in ROME.
Have you ever asked yourself why it is such an impossible idea that Paul, like both Josephus (an Aramaic-speaking and writing Jew) and Tatian (an Aramaic-speaking and writing Assyrian), wrote in Aramaic while in "western" cities?
Have you ever asked yourself exactly how is it that Tatian, while writing in Rome, compiled a Gospel Harmony in ARAMAIC? What type of Gospels was he compiling in Aramaic.....if not ARAMAIC Gospels?
Have you ever asked yourself why only Greek manuscripts of both the "Antiquities" and the "Diatesseron" survive, but no Aramaic manuscripts? Isn't that an interesting parellel to what happened to the Aramaic NT in Europe *after* it was translated into Greek....discarded just like the original Aramaic "Antiquities" and the original Aramaic "Diatesseron"?
Things that make you go hmmmm.....
Both Josephus and Tatian were citizens of Rome, and lived in Rome. And both of them wrote the works by which they are famous....the "Antiquities" by Josephus and of course the "Diatesseron" by Tatian.....in the ARAMAIC language, while LIVING in ROME.
Have you ever asked yourself why it is such an impossible idea that Paul, like both Josephus (an Aramaic-speaking and writing Jew) and Tatian (an Aramaic-speaking and writing Assyrian), wrote in Aramaic while in "western" cities?
Have you ever asked yourself exactly how is it that Tatian, while writing in Rome, compiled a Gospel Harmony in ARAMAIC? What type of Gospels was he compiling in Aramaic.....if not ARAMAIC Gospels?
Have you ever asked yourself why only Greek manuscripts of both the "Antiquities" and the "Diatesseron" survive, but no Aramaic manuscripts? Isn't that an interesting parellel to what happened to the Aramaic NT in Europe *after* it was translated into Greek....discarded just like the original Aramaic "Antiquities" and the original Aramaic "Diatesseron"?
Things that make you go hmmmm.....
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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