05-14-2004, 06:27 PM
Shlama Akhi Dave,
Great!
Research the Arabic Diatesseron by reading A. S. Marmardji (Beirut, Lebanon: Imprimerie Catholique, 1935)), a native Arabic-speaker, who produced overwhelming evidence that the Arabic version was a direct translation from the Aramaic original, and not Greek, by showing how certain ungrammatical Arabic forms followed the Aramaic to a tee.
Remember, Abul Faraj Abdullah ibn a-Tayyib was a prominent priest within the Church of the East, being a secretary of the Patriarch Elias I. You're not talking about some unknown guy here.
If he said he translated Tatian's Aramaic harmony, I believe him. What motivation would he have, in the 11th century, to lie about it?
Dave Wrote:I love you too Paul, and were beating up each other over this.
I'm just gonna have to agree to disagree over it. Unless I find something that would totally disprove what information there is about Tatian's Diatesseron out there, then would I be able to see your side in it.
Great!
Research the Arabic Diatesseron by reading A. S. Marmardji (Beirut, Lebanon: Imprimerie Catholique, 1935)), a native Arabic-speaker, who produced overwhelming evidence that the Arabic version was a direct translation from the Aramaic original, and not Greek, by showing how certain ungrammatical Arabic forms followed the Aramaic to a tee.
Remember, Abul Faraj Abdullah ibn a-Tayyib was a prominent priest within the Church of the East, being a secretary of the Patriarch Elias I. You're not talking about some unknown guy here.
If he said he translated Tatian's Aramaic harmony, I believe him. What motivation would he have, in the 11th century, to lie about it?
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan