11-25-2013, 02:14 AM
konway87 Wrote:Syriac is just another name for Aramaic made the Greeks (Aram was called Syria and Arameans as Syrians). If Syriac wasn't a jewish language, then why was Book of Job written in Syriac and translated it into Greek Septuagint?
Job was not written in Syriac. Where did you get this idea from?
I am using the term "Syriac" in its strictest academic sense. The language of the Syriac manuscript of Book 6 of The Jewish Wars is nearly 1,000 years too young to be original.
Additionally, a large number of Aramaic dialects that are not Syriac use an autonym that is some variation of "Syriac" (as I mentioned earlier about Galilean Aramaic calling *itself* /suriston/; it is not Syriac).