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Aramaic "autograph"
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Shlama:
If, as Greek Primacists say, the Greek New Testament was the autograph of the New Testament, why did the Latin Vulgate of Jerome dominate Christendom till the time of the Reformation. Even with the Reformation, no single manuscript of the Greek New Testament was authoritative enough to stand alone.
In very fact, today there is no Greek New Testament manuscript that is deferred to as the New Testament "autograph". The Textus receptus is an "averaged" text based upon 12 Byzantine Greek New Testament manuscripts.
On the other hand, the Peshitta New Testament is not an "averaged text". The Peshitta can easily be demonstrated to be the original "autograph" of the New Testament. The handful of variations between any two eastern Peshitta New Testament manuscripts are without polysemys/split words/synonyms.
The use of synonyms is evidence that any work is a translation. For this reason, the Greek New Testament shows evidence that the various manuscripts are translations from a source text. That source text is the Peshitta New Testament. Moreover the tradition of the CoE is that the Peshitta has been unchanged, and without variation since it was received by the Apostles in the first century. Precisely when in the first century the Peshitta was received in it's 22 book complete form is still speculative, but compared to the traditions surrounding the reception of the Greek New Testament, the care with which the Peshitta has been preserved through great tribulation is nothing short of miraculous.
It's time that Greek Primacists came to their senses in light of the cohesive evidence which points to an Aramaic "autograph" of the New Testament.

Shlama,
Stephen Silver
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Aramaic "autograph" - by Stephen Silver - 11-13-2008, 07:44 PM
Re: Aramaic "autograph" - by judge - 11-15-2008, 01:03 PM
Re: Aramaic "autograph" - by Mike Kar - 11-17-2008, 09:55 PM
Re: Aramaic "autograph" - by Stephen Silver - 11-19-2008, 07:26 PM
Re: Aramaic "autograph" - by Mike Kar - 11-21-2008, 09:55 PM

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