08-28-2008, 10:28 PM
Shlama to you Brother Mike,
I only have a short moment to write--but I will expand on these issues a bit later. For now, I want to just say these things:
1) Brother Paul has accurately conveyed my position. He has also made an incredibly important observation on focussing on the universal acceptance of the 22 books rather than the different numbers of books in the NT elsewhere. Early Christianity (and Messianic Judaism), was a very diverse and variegated phenomenon and it is unfortunate that many folks don't realize this due to Western Orthodoxy trying to santize history.
2) I am 100% certain about the originality of the Eastern 22, and I think that alone is hugely significant. If nothing else can be proved other than that, I am still a happy man.
3) There is no way, as I said before, that any competent Aramaicist believes the Western 5 to be original, compositional Aramaic. It is cut and dried like the best of science. There is NO doubt on this score at all.
4) Christopher Lancaster is now known as Raphael Lataster, and he is NOT a translator as Paul and I are. He is very much a Peshitta enthusiast and has learned a lot in compiling evidence from myself and others, but his views on this score are more faith based.
5) You have not offended me in the slightest.
Hope this helps!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
I only have a short moment to write--but I will expand on these issues a bit later. For now, I want to just say these things:
1) Brother Paul has accurately conveyed my position. He has also made an incredibly important observation on focussing on the universal acceptance of the 22 books rather than the different numbers of books in the NT elsewhere. Early Christianity (and Messianic Judaism), was a very diverse and variegated phenomenon and it is unfortunate that many folks don't realize this due to Western Orthodoxy trying to santize history.
2) I am 100% certain about the originality of the Eastern 22, and I think that alone is hugely significant. If nothing else can be proved other than that, I am still a happy man.
3) There is no way, as I said before, that any competent Aramaicist believes the Western 5 to be original, compositional Aramaic. It is cut and dried like the best of science. There is NO doubt on this score at all.
4) Christopher Lancaster is now known as Raphael Lataster, and he is NOT a translator as Paul and I are. He is very much a Peshitta enthusiast and has learned a lot in compiling evidence from myself and others, but his views on this score are more faith based.
5) You have not offended me in the slightest.
Hope this helps!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth