11-26-2003, 11:52 AM
gbausc Wrote:I have analyzed The Peshitta text , searching for 75 Divine Names and titles by skipping a certain number of letters in the text, using some super fast and finely tuned software called CodeFinder.
Your premise may be flawed. I think you could take a work known to be originally composed in English and a translation of it in either Hebrew/Aramaic and get a higher percentage of hits on "Divine Names and titles" in the Semitic translation by the very nature of the languages involved (the more distanst a language is from Hebrew, the greater it suffers from the confused speech of the Tower of Babel with a proportional loss in ability to carry any divine "incoding").
Quote:Example:Greek NT & Peshitta
Revelation 21:24 kai peripathsousin ta eynh dia tou fwtov authv kai oi basileiv thv ghv ferousin autw doxan kai timhn twn eynwn eiv authn
Peshitta
0txwbst hl Nytym 09r0d 0klmw hrhwnb 0mm9 Nyklhmw Revelation 21:24
There is no Peshitta Revelation. And the Western Five in the Peshitto are universally held to be translations of the Greek (Although I suppose there could be some individual mavericks out there who would disagree with the very groups that added and mantained those 5 books in the Peshitto). If your results are showing that the Peshitto mss. of the Western Five are more original than the Greek mss. then you lend credence to my theory about the nature of Hebrew/Aramaic languages.
Shlama, Craig