Bart Ehrman.

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For the believer reading Ehrman, one sees this concept rather clearly: to have once believed in Moshiach and squarely placed ones trust in the Sacrifice of sacrifices and to then turn away and exalt the headiness of intellectualism to diety status is quite a stark transition. It is one thing to not fully grasp or come to understand the Way(s) of Elohim, and quite another to abandon Elohim because there remain unanswered questions. Someone in this thread used the word dangerous to describe him. Agreed. At issue however, might rather be exactly what kind of tampering has been done at the hands of church fathers to perfectly good Scriptures in an effort to steer the masses to one particular religious system or to control and manipulate in one way or another. And I can't be the first one to have asked these kinds of questions. Can you think of a better way to influence minds than to alter the Holy Writ of G-d? So this is the area I want to unearth. I pray for the guidance of the Ruach HaKodesh.

Simply put, there are aspects of the Sacred text that believers try hard understand and cannot - if we admit that we still have real questions and have not exalted our intellect.... And the scope of these questions range from mere syntax to the complexities of deciphering "Bible codes". This is why I voiced the idea of authenticity of Scripture in this forum. Because it appears to me from a cursory reading (I have many more miles to travel on this current learning-journey) of the Aramaic that the primacy argument is right on the money.

Are there books on the subject that could give one a compass reading to navigate Aramaic with?