03-04-2013, 09:56 PM
Shlama,
to me, the pun is so obvious, i just can't see the promotion of it not being intended. there are other examples of the play on "sons/stone/build" in the Peshitta that could be brought forth from other books, which gives evidence that the pun was apparent and used by those who were speaking the language everyday. who cares what anybody says differently 2000 years removed? the text speaks for itself, if we have ears to hear. <!-- s:listen: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/listen.gif" alt=":listen:" title="Listen" /><!-- s:listen: -->
if you're interested in an outside source of Aramaic puns that are somewhat close to the time of Messiah, read portions of the Talmud/Mishnah, and see similar punning taking place. rabbis could apparently easily converse with Samaritans and Galileans, even to the point of punning on each other's words. look at the books of Exodus and Proverbs, for example, where there is even cross-language punning taking place! these people weren't dolts - they lived in an intensely variated culture, with languages and dialects galore, and their written works not only show this to be so, but uphold the reality that such diversity wasn't such an immediate problem for these people.
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy
to me, the pun is so obvious, i just can't see the promotion of it not being intended. there are other examples of the play on "sons/stone/build" in the Peshitta that could be brought forth from other books, which gives evidence that the pun was apparent and used by those who were speaking the language everyday. who cares what anybody says differently 2000 years removed? the text speaks for itself, if we have ears to hear. <!-- s:listen: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/listen.gif" alt=":listen:" title="Listen" /><!-- s:listen: -->
if you're interested in an outside source of Aramaic puns that are somewhat close to the time of Messiah, read portions of the Talmud/Mishnah, and see similar punning taking place. rabbis could apparently easily converse with Samaritans and Galileans, even to the point of punning on each other's words. look at the books of Exodus and Proverbs, for example, where there is even cross-language punning taking place! these people weren't dolts - they lived in an intensely variated culture, with languages and dialects galore, and their written works not only show this to be so, but uphold the reality that such diversity wasn't such an immediate problem for these people.
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy