11-04-2013, 07:01 AM
Paul Younan Wrote: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.
Thank you for the clarification. Indeed, I hardly can read Beowulf, and most Germanic names, as my own name, still given to children, are not understood. It's just a tradition.
I have no 10 people who could try that for me, but just one, butI believe you.
Regards