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Was the New Testament really written in Greek? Have a look at this website claiming evidence of an Aramaic New Testament.
posted by Matt @ 1:15 PM
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Friday, August 11, 2006
Was the New Testament really written in Greek? Have a look at this website claiming evidence of an Aramaic New Testament.
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Don't take Peshitta primacists too seriously. They typically ignore the fact that there are older extant Aramaic NT texts than the Peshitta. Besides, anyone who knows both Aramaic and Greek can see that the Peshitta is heavily Greek in style and wording. I reccomend getting the "Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels" by George Kiraz...if you can read Aramaic. It provides all four existing versions of the Aramaic NT texts in a comparitive layout.
It is fairly established that the Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle of James (and perhaps even Jude) were originally scribed in Aramaic. All the Pauline Epistles and the remaining NT books, however, were almost certainly penned in Greek.
Like I told you before, if you look at this guy's qualifications, a bachelors in pharmacy does not qualify one to write a book on ancient semitic languages. I would be much more apt to trust the scholarship of the men at the Deas Sea Scolls Insitute or other bible scholars at Trinity Western University than someone whose formal education is in the pharmaceutical buisiness. Not that the guy doesn't have anything interesting to say, but I would just be careful.
Just imagine me, with a B.A. in Philosphy, trying to tell you that Einstein's Theory of Relativity is wrong and that we ought to go back to Aristotelian or Newtonian Physics? ummm... no...
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