use of OS by ancient Aramaic-speaking Christians

[Paul Younan]

Heheh. <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: --> Gotta love how these guys practice their "scientific methodology." Just like Trimm, who gives you one example that slightly resembles an Old Scratch quote if you turn it over 90 degrees and stand on your head while holding your breath....but ignores 10 direct word-for-word quotes from the Peshitta. Sheesh.

Mar Aphrahat lived over a century before Rabbula was born. If Rabbula created Old Scratch, and I think all the evidence points to it, then Mar Aphrahat could only have been paraphrasing one of two sources for his Gospel quotations - either the separate Peshitta gospels or Tatian the Assyrian's Peshitta Gospel harmony.

We've already demonstrated that Mar Aphrahat's quotes of Paul's epistles come directly from the Peshitta.

We'd better watch out, though. Akhan Dave might pop in and claim that Mar Aphrahat's works must have been tampered with to make them read like the Peshitta.

Those are the rules, you know. If they find a little something from Mar Aphrahat that ever so slightly somewhat resembles an Old Syriac reading, it is hailed as a monumental discovery and an empirical evidence for their position.

On the other hand, if we find 10 solid examples, without question from the Peshitta, for every one of their examples - well, that MUST be tampering!

It's a no-win situation for us, I suppose. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/huh.gif" alt="" title="Huh" /><!-- s -->

Love you, Dave. I'm only needling you.