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Ancient Aramaic Translation of the Eastern Peshitta
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ZechariahBY Wrote:Steve, did he ever state that it was lingustics [sic]?

When we're talking about translation, we're dealing with linguistics. <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile -->

ZechariahBY Wrote:I guess then by your reasoning the whole body of literature within Kabbalistic texts that uses these methods as well is pseudoscience? I mean the whole basis for the Sefirot are based on this type of reasoning looking at aramaic rewordings of the roots of words.

Mysticism, by its very definition, is unscientific. It's not falsifiable. It's not predicative. That's not its purpose.

Who claims otherwise?

ZechariahBY Wrote:I would just say that within Judaism it is expected that there are multiple levels of interpretation, this doesn't disqualify the syntactical work that people have done on the "Pashat" level, but we need to understand that this is a different level of hermeneutic and it shouldn't be disqualified simply because it doesn't fit into a western academic scholarly paradigm, both have merit, and both can serve understanding the meaning of the text.

For railing against the "western academic scholarly paradigm" you don't seem to get it. For one, academia is interested in all layers of pardes, but within the deeper levels more interested in their practice as a phenomenon as their premise is experiential.

Academics aside, an hermeneutic that does nothing useful, other than connect random dots with translucent lines to make a big scribble in the middle is without merit or worth. A useful hermeneutic can make relevant sense of a picture that is otherwise obscured, connecting the dots into a bigger image. But enough about theology.

This proposal here is just as tenuous as the John-Kennedy-Abraham-Lincoln "coincidences" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln?Ken...ban_legend) or so-called Ley Lines (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_line). It's plagued with confirmation bias and ignores (or liberally shoehorns) counter-examples.

ZechariahBY Wrote:As we say in Judaism. "Shivim Pnnim L'Torah" The Torah has 70 faces!

Yes, but as a dear rabbi once told me as a corollary to that, "Beware those who wish to 'sod' it all." (Not that I think that this is an example of that.) <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile -->

Peace,
-Steve
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Re: Ancient Aramaic Translation of the Eastern Peshitta - by SteveCaruso - 10-28-2014, 10:01 PM

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