01-06-2011, 12:46 PM
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.
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.