08-15-2004, 09:04 PM
gbausc Wrote:Victor Alexander is a fraud. He seems not to understand basic Aramaic while pretending to translate accurately, or he willfully distorts it to suit his heretical doctrine. Either way he is a fraud and a charlatan.
Hi Dave,
Have you spoken with Victor Alexander yourself about this?
This is what he says about himself on his website -- is it inaccurate?
Yes, I do understand Aramaic to a profound level. I went to an Aramaic language school. It was a Presbyterian Church school. Our two teachers were both from Urmia, Iran, where the Aramaic language scholarship was the dominant force in Ashurai cultural life and where most of our best literary people came from. I studied religion and language from the first grade, in the language Jesus spoke! I continued my education at an American Jesuit high school, from the time I was twelve, entering the seventh grade. I studied religion with Father Merrick. I got an "A" in the course based on my presenting a final assignment on the "Proof of the Existence of God." I studied Latin at Regiopolis College in Kingston, Ontario, during my eleventh grade. Later, I completed my high school in San Francisco in 1962. I entered college and finally graduated in 1970, from the San Francisco State University, with a BA in Filmmaking.
What are the other distortions of the Aramaic, if any, are in his translation?
In Messiah,
Wayne