08-29-2010, 07:23 PM
It has Greek names because people had Greek names... Peshitta antiquitism/primacy doesn't try to speak over and against any and all Greek influences that were very real and invasive in the first century CE. There are a great multitude of Greek city names, country names, people names, and words used in the Peshitta. One anomaly I've stumbled across is the appearance of [font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]Sw=wz0[/font]??[Azotaws] in the Peshitta text, as Azwtov [Azotas] is a Greek transliteration of dwdH' [Ashdod], so one would expect to find [font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]dwd40[/font]??[Ashdod] as it appears in the Peshitta Tanakh.