07-30-2004, 08:49 PM
Oh I just saw your 7-perfect Bible number comment Valentin my brother, so I just had to say. This is a PERFECT proof... Thanks for your help with some of the Greek mss that I didn't have.
Oh yeah and the only gripe with this is that it is in Matthew, which everyone knows to be Aramaic anyway...
Conclusion:
While this example may be enough to make Peshitta enthusiasts like me salivate at the mouth, Greek scholars would most likely scoff. You see, most Bible scholarship already concedes (at least in part) that Matthew was written in Aramaic (as was Hebrews). However, it still provides a nice confirmation of the Aramaic original of Matthew but also accomplishes far greater. It demonstrates that, YES, we WILL see split word examples, by comparing Aramaic originals to Greek translations. And it also serves as a nice comparator to the books that are more likely to have been written in Greek (like the Pauline Epistles ??? by this I mean that these books are just more likely to be ???Greek??? than Matthew and Hebrews, not that I believe they have Greek originals???), like Philemon. While seeing Matthew filled with Aramaicisms, split words, this rather large split word example, Semitic construction, etc, may not be impressive to scholars, the fact that these things are found in Philemon is quite significant.
Oh yeah and the only gripe with this is that it is in Matthew, which everyone knows to be Aramaic anyway...
Conclusion:
While this example may be enough to make Peshitta enthusiasts like me salivate at the mouth, Greek scholars would most likely scoff. You see, most Bible scholarship already concedes (at least in part) that Matthew was written in Aramaic (as was Hebrews). However, it still provides a nice confirmation of the Aramaic original of Matthew but also accomplishes far greater. It demonstrates that, YES, we WILL see split word examples, by comparing Aramaic originals to Greek translations. And it also serves as a nice comparator to the books that are more likely to have been written in Greek (like the Pauline Epistles ??? by this I mean that these books are just more likely to be ???Greek??? than Matthew and Hebrews, not that I believe they have Greek originals???), like Philemon. While seeing Matthew filled with Aramaicisms, split words, this rather large split word example, Semitic construction, etc, may not be impressive to scholars, the fact that these things are found in Philemon is quite significant.