11-04-2013, 01:06 AM
Shlama Akhi
Mexicans cannot understand Italian, and Italians cannot understand Spaniards. If your Italian friend claims otherwise, then he is not being truthful.
I recommended that you find 10 Neo-Aramaic speakers (Assyians, Chaldeans or Jews) and read the Aramaic of Daniel to them and have them translate it for you. This is a 2,600 year old Aramaic variety that they will all understand as much as you would find King James English understandable.
You speak a Germanic language. That language has evolved far more in 500 years than Aramaic has in 3,000 years.
The Aramaic of Daniel's time compared to today's Neo-Aramaic (not to mention NT times) is absolutely *nothing* like Italian vs Spanish. It is more like the English of the King James Bible vs modern American English. Or the Arabic of the Koran vs modern Arabic. It's very close.
No matter how old an inscription in Aramaic that they find on an excavation, I still can read it very easily. Some people make way too much out of variances in time and place. The language is still the same language.
Try to understand Beowulf. See how much the language has changed over time. That is *not* the case with any Semitic language. Hebrew, Aramaic or Arabic.
+Shamasha
Mexicans cannot understand Italian, and Italians cannot understand Spaniards. If your Italian friend claims otherwise, then he is not being truthful.
I recommended that you find 10 Neo-Aramaic speakers (Assyians, Chaldeans or Jews) and read the Aramaic of Daniel to them and have them translate it for you. This is a 2,600 year old Aramaic variety that they will all understand as much as you would find King James English understandable.
You speak a Germanic language. That language has evolved far more in 500 years than Aramaic has in 3,000 years.
The Aramaic of Daniel's time compared to today's Neo-Aramaic (not to mention NT times) is absolutely *nothing* like Italian vs Spanish. It is more like the English of the King James Bible vs modern American English. Or the Arabic of the Koran vs modern Arabic. It's very close.
No matter how old an inscription in Aramaic that they find on an excavation, I still can read it very easily. Some people make way too much out of variances in time and place. The language is still the same language.
Try to understand Beowulf. See how much the language has changed over time. That is *not* the case with any Semitic language. Hebrew, Aramaic or Arabic.
+Shamasha