10-13-2011, 09:35 PM
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I just got Joseph Pashka's "The Aramaic Gospels and Acts: Text and Translation" which was published in 2003...and though I have not checked his translation work to see how he deals with the Aramaic Text he uses, I just checked it for Luke 22:17-18, John 7:53:-8:11, Acts 8:37, 15:43, 20:28, 28:29....and all those verses are present and also has the Western reading in Acts 20:28.
He has a statement on the back of the book, which says this:
"The oldest Aramaic translations of the original Greek Gospels were finally standardised sometime in the third or fourth century as the version known as the Peshitta, The Syriac-Aramaic Peshitta version has been regarded as the standard version ever since, and is the same text presented here in the old Estrangelo letters."
This man, at that time he wrote that, seems to be totally un-aware of the Eastern Peshitta Text, or its history as the Sacred Scripture of The Church of the East from the time of the Apostles till now.
What he states there, is that the text he used for his translation, the Western Peshitto version of the Original Eastern Aramaic Scriptures, is a translation from a Greek source, and appeared in a standardized form in the 3rd-4th century.
While what he says about the entire Aramaic text itself being translated from the original Greek, is incorrect, some of the readings in the text he chose to use, do in fact originate from Greek and even Latin sources...
I'll look around more in the next few days and see what I find there.
Blessings,
Chuck
Ok...back to Version Analysis/Summary.
I just got Joseph Pashka's "The Aramaic Gospels and Acts: Text and Translation" which was published in 2003...and though I have not checked his translation work to see how he deals with the Aramaic Text he uses, I just checked it for Luke 22:17-18, John 7:53:-8:11, Acts 8:37, 15:43, 20:28, 28:29....and all those verses are present and also has the Western reading in Acts 20:28.
He has a statement on the back of the book, which says this:
"The oldest Aramaic translations of the original Greek Gospels were finally standardised sometime in the third or fourth century as the version known as the Peshitta, The Syriac-Aramaic Peshitta version has been regarded as the standard version ever since, and is the same text presented here in the old Estrangelo letters."
This man, at that time he wrote that, seems to be totally un-aware of the Eastern Peshitta Text, or its history as the Sacred Scripture of The Church of the East from the time of the Apostles till now.
What he states there, is that the text he used for his translation, the Western Peshitto version of the Original Eastern Aramaic Scriptures, is a translation from a Greek source, and appeared in a standardized form in the 3rd-4th century.
While what he says about the entire Aramaic text itself being translated from the original Greek, is incorrect, some of the readings in the text he chose to use, do in fact originate from Greek and even Latin sources...
I'll look around more in the next few days and see what I find there.
Blessings,
Chuck