Elymas or Etoimas?

[Sami Rabia]

Shlama Jeremy

It could be easy to make this mistake if the text is a little smeared, also when the lines are close together one on top of the other sometimes the letters below can extend too high and cause confusion.

Also have you looked at the texts in DSS font? There is more distinction between Lamed and Tet there, but its still possible if you consider human hand writing etc.

Sami

Shlama akhi,

i think the Estrangela script does provide the easiest route to understanding for this one, but there are others where the DSS script also makes more sense.

this is evidence that the original Aramaic texts were written in both scripts, and some translators went from the DSS manuscripts, and some from the Estrangela manuscripts, and this would had to have happened very early on, for the variants arose quickly in the Greek translations after this point. i just went through Romans and found quite a few instances where such variants can be explained this way. when i have more time i'll post some of them on here for further consideration.


Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy

We should compile all the Greek variants that can clearly be accounted for by similar letters in the Aramaic. This is done in the Hebrew Tanakh as you know, when two Samaritan or Paleo Hebrew letters look very similar and can be confused and swapping the around makes more sense than the Masoretic reading.

There are also examples of this happening within the Aramaic texts, the Peshitta and the Peshitto differ in some areas precisely over a Lamed or Nun and such letters as look very similar in Estrangelo.

I think we will find that some variants will be better seen in Estrangelo and others in DSS script.

What do you think:

DSS > Estrangelo > Greek
\ Greek

That Estrangelo was made very early and the Greek made from both DSS and Estrangelo in different places?

If so if it could be shown that a particular book in one family Greek texts for example, displays particularly variants that can be accounted for by Estrangelo and another Greek family displays particularly variants that can be explained by DSS than we would have a pattern, and that would be interesting.

If one Greek book for example Matthew, or especially an Epistle like Romans, shows consistently DSS variants or all Estrangelo variants this would conclusive.

This has probably been thought of before, do you know if it has lead anywhere?

Sami