Steve Caruso

[SteveCaruso]

Actually, I'm not looking at the Peshitta as an "invalid" source by any means. My entire premise is that Jesus spoke Aramaic, and in reconstructing the precise dialect that was his (early Galilean) I have made rather extensive use of the Peshitta as an example of a text that is (for all intents and purposes) much closer to his original words than the Greek. However, using the Peshitta towards these means has some limitations that I have expounded upon in earlier posts in this thread (i.e. vocabulary, grammatical, and orthographical variations between Syriac and Galilean) and this has shown up in a few places that I have found to date where an idiom or some wordplay is missed by the Peshitta simply due to that difference in dialect.

So in short, yes I'm making use of the Peshitta as an example alongside the Greek.

Peace,
-Steve