01-27-2008, 03:03 AM
Shlama to both of you, Brothers Albion and Rafa,
I see both your viewpoints as valid. In a way, Mari/PEACE stands as silent testimony against HRV. It shows, in graphic detail, why the Aramaic NT tradtions are way more important than the late medieval Hebrew Matthews and such. Bottom line is for at least the 22, and very likely for a lot more, the Aramaic Peshitta remains a potent and continous vessel of original Semitic thought regarding Messiah Y'shua, and this undercuts Hebrew NT primacy and Trimm with it. I don't need to thrash the man more than my general work has already done. I really don't like giving him so much credit.
On the other hand, Mari/PEACE, like the Ruach Qadim books, already has a fair amount of material that dicredits Trimm directly. In one case, the Old Syriac section that is in both works, squarely takes apart Trimm's theories. A similar process happens in Revelation's foonotes. I suppose then that I feel what I currently have is probably sufficient. I neither totally ignore him nor exaggerate him to importance. I have enjoyed though identifying his textual ideas in my previous books as "Ex-Nihilo Theory" and "Scratch and Lose". Beyond this, I am not sure if more is needed, but it may be that being at the end of my process for Mari/PEACE has more to do with my not changing it than thinking this is such a bad idea. It's just not necessarily an idea that makes me want to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.
Still, as I said, the idea has merit.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
I see both your viewpoints as valid. In a way, Mari/PEACE stands as silent testimony against HRV. It shows, in graphic detail, why the Aramaic NT tradtions are way more important than the late medieval Hebrew Matthews and such. Bottom line is for at least the 22, and very likely for a lot more, the Aramaic Peshitta remains a potent and continous vessel of original Semitic thought regarding Messiah Y'shua, and this undercuts Hebrew NT primacy and Trimm with it. I don't need to thrash the man more than my general work has already done. I really don't like giving him so much credit.
On the other hand, Mari/PEACE, like the Ruach Qadim books, already has a fair amount of material that dicredits Trimm directly. In one case, the Old Syriac section that is in both works, squarely takes apart Trimm's theories. A similar process happens in Revelation's foonotes. I suppose then that I feel what I currently have is probably sufficient. I neither totally ignore him nor exaggerate him to importance. I have enjoyed though identifying his textual ideas in my previous books as "Ex-Nihilo Theory" and "Scratch and Lose". Beyond this, I am not sure if more is needed, but it may be that being at the end of my process for Mari/PEACE has more to do with my not changing it than thinking this is such a bad idea. It's just not necessarily an idea that makes me want to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.
Still, as I said, the idea has merit.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth