05-07-2004, 07:54 AM
Very interesting Yuri!
Wish there was a book that compiled the quotations to compare with the known sources at hand.
Interesting quote from Voobus
Wish there was a book that compiled the quotations to compare with the known sources at hand.
Quote:As the eminent scholar Arthur V????bus states in his 'Researches on the circulation of the Peshitta in the fifth century', Publ.: Baltic University, Pinneberg 1948, p. 57:
Some very valuable clues are to be found in the specific Palestinian Aramaic terms, idioms and grammatical forms preserved by Old Syriac gospels. These are unknown in pure classical Syriac and constitute an alien element. Certainly Tatian has not made use of them, but these linguistic anomalies together with other remarkable idiosyncrasies and relics of Palestinian provenance tend to prove the existence of an archaic and heterogeneous layer in the Old Syriac gospels. It seems to be the fact, that in a more careful analysis of these elements lies the best hope to go forward here.
Interesting quote from Voobus