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Revelation Good case for Aramaic Primacy?? Come on now
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Dear Mike,

Please note that the churches which have used and preserved the Peshitta for the last couple of thousand years don't have Revelation or any of the other five books in their canon. Translations were made from the Greek for these books, and these were included in some copies of manuscripts for reference sake. None of these churches has ever actually modified the canon as they closed it, and that's with only 22 books.

For example, modern printed copies have these translated books - with an explanation in the beginning that these were made from the Greek, and do not form part of the Peshitta canon.

The readings during the liturgy, the cyclical yearly readings, do not contain anything from these 5 books. Nor are they allowed to be read in the Church. Additionally, sermons are not allowed to reference them.

That being said, the layman of the Church of the East is encouraged to read these books privately at home for personal edification. They are considered by the Church of the East to be "pious works", but not inspired scripture.

Many of the people who are advocating Aramaic primacy and using quotes from these translated Aramaic versions are coming from a primarily Protestant/American Evangelical background and therefore they desire to have both Aramaic primacy and a 27-book canon. I want to stress this is not the position of the Church of the East.

Here is a long download (please give it some time):

http://www.peshitta.org/pdf/western_five.pdf

+Shamasha Paul
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Re: Revelation Good case for Aramaic Primacy?? Come on now - by Paul Younan - 08-27-2008, 09:46 PM

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