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[SteveCaruso]

No Steve, A scribal mistake in a True Peshitta Manuscript, does not make it any less a True Peshitta, any more than a mis-labeled shift nob renders a 57 Chevy any less a true 57 Chevy.

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One can keep adding things to an original 57 Chevy, and changing things out that they want it to have, but it alters the original 57 Chevy and renders it something else. When a guy wants to have a real original 57 Chevy, he looks for one that has not been altered or revised.

So which is it and who determines what is a "change" vs a "mislabeling"?

Your goalposts need nailing down before they run away again.

It seems like you don't know what a True Aramaic New Testament really is then?

I know a True Scotsman when I see one. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->

Your metaphor falls short, given the nature of the differences between manuscript traditions. Orthographical variants (the majority of all textual differences in any language) aren't actual differences. Amar na vs amarna is color vs. colour.

And just FYI, I have photostatic copies of the manuscripts and printed texts here on my shelf to check each word out. I have found a few mistakes at Dukrahna for the Khabouris transcription, so, I always make sure I check the Manuscripts and printed texts of the Eastern Text to make sure.

So you're an armchair epigrapher now, too? <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

Peace,
-Steve