03-24-2014, 12:59 PM
Hi GP,
Before I show you the Aramaic Janus Parallelism, I'll demonstrate one from English, so you have a background before delving into the Aramaic. Sound OK?
The Janus Parallelism, named after the ancient deity Janus, reflects a "looking backward and forward" aspect when reading a sentence.
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The Janus Parallelism in English is below:
"The temple veil he did tear as the flow from his eyes revealed his sorrow."
The word in the middle, in this case tear, has a dual meaning in English (and only in English, not in Aramaic or Chinese.) It can mean "tear" as in the verb meaning to destroy, and as a noun in can mean the issue of water from the eyes when sorrowful.
The word serves as an anchor in the sentence, and like Janus - points backwards in the phrase to one meaning (pointed out in blue), and forward in the phrase to the other meaning (highlighted in green.)
Does that example in English make sense? Here's another one:
"The return to her den is arrived for the sow, the time of cultivation is upon the land."
Again, this example plays on the dual meaning of the English word "sow" which means "female pig/cast seeds".
These examples only work in English, no other language has the same word for each instance above. If these were translated into Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or Chinese, the Janus Parallelism would be lost.
Now that you have a better understanding of what a Janus Parallelism is, would you like to see how Jame's 3:18 demonstrates that it could only have been written in Aramaic ?
+Shamasha
Before I show you the Aramaic Janus Parallelism, I'll demonstrate one from English, so you have a background before delving into the Aramaic. Sound OK?
The Janus Parallelism, named after the ancient deity Janus, reflects a "looking backward and forward" aspect when reading a sentence.
The Janus Parallelism in English is below:
"The temple veil he did tear as the flow from his eyes revealed his sorrow."
The word in the middle, in this case tear, has a dual meaning in English (and only in English, not in Aramaic or Chinese.) It can mean "tear" as in the verb meaning to destroy, and as a noun in can mean the issue of water from the eyes when sorrowful.
The word serves as an anchor in the sentence, and like Janus - points backwards in the phrase to one meaning (pointed out in blue), and forward in the phrase to the other meaning (highlighted in green.)
Does that example in English make sense? Here's another one:
"The return to her den is arrived for the sow, the time of cultivation is upon the land."
Again, this example plays on the dual meaning of the English word "sow" which means "female pig/cast seeds".
These examples only work in English, no other language has the same word for each instance above. If these were translated into Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or Chinese, the Janus Parallelism would be lost.
Now that you have a better understanding of what a Janus Parallelism is, would you like to see how Jame's 3:18 demonstrates that it could only have been written in Aramaic ?
+Shamasha