10-15-2003, 03:53 AM
Shlama Akhi Andrew,
No prob - I will get more of these....
The process is painstaking because, most of the time, Mar Aphrahat (a.k.a, "Aphraates", "Parhad", etc.) really is re-wording and re-formulating, and just plain recalling from memory.
My only goal was to show that the probability of his paraphrasing matching up directly with the Peshitta (the text he was paraphrasing) would far outnumber the times where it seemed he might be quoting something else - it's just random. (and sometimes not quoting anything at all, like the earlier example on this forum about Martha being told "If you have faith....")
See what I mean?
The theory is that Mar Aphrahat used the Peshitta, and sometimes he quoted directly from it and sometimes he just paraphrased. That's the goal of these posts......to demonstrate some direct quotes from the Peshitta and at the same time show some quotes that match nothing in existence - therefore proving the theory that he used the Peshitta - and only the Peshitta.....and perhaps some "literary genius."
You see, the reason Akhan Yuri hasn't answered yet (God love him!) is that these examples don't fit into their theory. How could Mar Aphrahat be quoting a version which supposedly didn't exist until a hundred years after he was buried? (quotes, mind you, directly from the Peshitta and directly against the Old Scratch readings.)
According to this latest view, the Old Scratch was the basis for the Diatesseron harmony of Tatian.
Who laid that egg? I have no idea. But I know many people tried real hard to hatch it.
I guess those scholars should paraphrase their "consensus!" <!-- s
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The gall of these people - to think they can come around and tell millions of people throughout the world who have a 2,000 year-old history that they don't even know the story of their own texts - that they really were waiting around for 21st-century American philosophists to edumacate them and set them straight.
Sheesh!
No prob - I will get more of these....
The process is painstaking because, most of the time, Mar Aphrahat (a.k.a, "Aphraates", "Parhad", etc.) really is re-wording and re-formulating, and just plain recalling from memory.
My only goal was to show that the probability of his paraphrasing matching up directly with the Peshitta (the text he was paraphrasing) would far outnumber the times where it seemed he might be quoting something else - it's just random. (and sometimes not quoting anything at all, like the earlier example on this forum about Martha being told "If you have faith....")
See what I mean?
The theory is that Mar Aphrahat used the Peshitta, and sometimes he quoted directly from it and sometimes he just paraphrased. That's the goal of these posts......to demonstrate some direct quotes from the Peshitta and at the same time show some quotes that match nothing in existence - therefore proving the theory that he used the Peshitta - and only the Peshitta.....and perhaps some "literary genius."
You see, the reason Akhan Yuri hasn't answered yet (God love him!) is that these examples don't fit into their theory. How could Mar Aphrahat be quoting a version which supposedly didn't exist until a hundred years after he was buried? (quotes, mind you, directly from the Peshitta and directly against the Old Scratch readings.)
According to this latest view, the Old Scratch was the basis for the Diatesseron harmony of Tatian.
Who laid that egg? I have no idea. But I know many people tried real hard to hatch it.
I guess those scholars should paraphrase their "consensus!" <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->The gall of these people - to think they can come around and tell millions of people throughout the world who have a 2,000 year-old history that they don't even know the story of their own texts - that they really were waiting around for 21st-century American philosophists to edumacate them and set them straight.
Sheesh!
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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