01-06-2011, 03:58 PM
distazo Wrote:Shlama Stephen,
I'll comment on two things. I paraphrase your thoughts.
"The books were not handed to the CoE until the middle ages."
Well, it has been said that the CoE was founded by Tawma (Thomas) and he had 22 books when he left to Babylon. The other 5 books could be written and received by the Asian assemblies later?
"The used Aramaic in the 5 books (Crawford) is beautifull because there were skilled Aramaic writers who could translate the Greek original 'as if' it were very authentic."
If that's the case, the whole Peshitta is a probably a fake too. It's poetic, its grammatically OK. The Greek is not (always) because of some skilled Greek/Aramaic translators.
Shlama:
Just as there were over 500 witnesses who saw the risen Christ during the time after his resurrection and His ascension so there were many Assyrian witnesses of high standing who have testified to the original Aramaic 22 book Peshitta. So it is today because these descendents of those very witnesses are alive in this generation.
Your lack of understanding of Aramaic and Hebrew testify against you. If you can only read Greek and English you have nothing to say about Semitic languages. Western Christianity is woefully amiss in their knowledge about the two sister Semitic languages of Hebrew and Aramaic, partly due to laziness and partly due to the willingness to follow those who are blind.
I suggest that you stick around and begin to ask credible questions about Aramaic and Hebrew and stop criticizing the things that you have no knowledge of. Many of us have started the very same way as you and are happy that we persevered. It's foolish to say that the 22 book Aramaic Peshitta is fake.
Jesus didn'tspeak Greek so by your reckoning all we have is a translation of his very words. In fact it is just this attitude that has led to the confusion in the Western churches.
Shlama,
Stephen Silver
Dukhrana Biblical Research
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