Steve Caruso

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Just as a heads-up, I've just posted some of my work on a reconstruction of The Lord's Prayer in Galilean Aramaic here:

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As all stuff on AramaicNT.org it's a work in progress, but it's a fun work in progress. :-)

Peace,
-Steve

Hi Steve,
Nice project.
Why don't you consider the peshitta as a valid source for the prayer? Yesus did not speak Greek (and why should he for instance mention the yod and the serta as a parable referring to the Hebrew text) if he was (say) Greek?
Why would he forbid to say Raqa, if the people were Greek?

So, if you reconstruct the prayer, from Greek, and find a unique way of addressing Father in John 17, why not look at the Peshitta? It is not translated from Greek and uses abba/abby a lot more times than just the Greek has 'Pater' (vocative) in John 17 along with 23 other place in the NT.

So, if you also would consult the Peshitta as an authority for reconstructing the prayer, I certainly would support the project.