Word play in aramaic and syriac

[Paul Younan]

Shamasha Paul, one thing it shows me, erorr or not...is the extreme conservation that all the scribes show here, that they wouldn't fix it for all these centuries, holding the text to such a high regard. The Greek copies seem to be endlessly fixed and altered, where no two Manuscripts are seen to be alike...even down to the late 1800s with W&H's edition, which looks like no single Greek copy/text before it...and which most of the modern Greek/English tranies come from.

I agree. Mar Ishodad didn't like it, and didn't use kind words for that (presumably) very ancient scribe. Obvious scribal/copyist errors are often corrected in texts. This one wasn't that big of a deal, someone likely added a gloss to suggest that the quirky Jews spoke this way ("in Hebraic"), and that's was the end of it.

Nun/Lamed always cause problems with students in Sunday school Aramaic classes. Depending on how sloppy their handwriting is, sometimes I can't make out what they are trying to write.

My English L looks like a C. Just throwing that out there. People have complained to me about my handwriting.

+Shamasha