Word play in aramaic and syriac

[Paul Younan]

Steve

It's so weird that a thesis for which no evidence exists, but say, hypothetical wordplay that nobody has seen in an ancient authentic NT, has more weight
than the Peshitta which does exist since ancient times.

Because they've already established as a base for their entire building that the Peshitta is a 5th-century text. To admit otherwise would invalidate much of their other work. It will not happen.

Say, in James 2 we have a 'Syriac' word pun. Was there an 'ancient Steve Caruso' that added the pun? If so, why should we believe you for any assumptions you make for a hypothetical text?

What a fantastic thing that would have been. First, that there would have been an ancient Steve Caruso - he would have done everything imaginable with a fierce tenacity to preserve the exact dialect of the village of Nazareth (he would've fought tooth and nail against the eastern-Aramaic leaning Judeans). Secondly, what a fantastic thing that ancient scribe did, cleverly choosing the secondary meaning of "Shayna" as a metaphor to "cultivated land" in which the "seed" is sown. And the wordplay with Shayna's primary meaning of "peace/tranquility" vs. "Shlama". All from the Greek word eyrene, used twice in the same sentence.

Somehow this ancient Steve Caruso made the ANT even better than the GNT (from which Yaqub, brother of our Lord who was writing to the Hebrew tribes in exile, supposedly wrote in Greek.) An amazing thing, indeed. Coincidence of the millennium.

+Shamasha