12-24-2008, 02:01 AM
Stephen:
Clearly I cannot stop you deleting the topic, but even you conceded there is some degree of relevance to the Aramaic Primacy, by the fact that you said there is little relevance.
"It's not even a good 72 hour/literal three days and three nights Jonah argument." I never once mentioned 72 hours so I really have no idea why you feel the need to bring this up. 3 days and 3 nights does not have to be 72 hours, this would be a maximum. According to the Jewish practice of counting parts of a day or night as a whole, "three days and three nights" at a minimum has to include two full days, two full nights, and at least portions of another day and another night. to be considered "three days and three nights". therefore it could be as little as 48hours + fractions of another day and night.
I am not trying to reinterpret the Aramiac, I admit my understanding of aramaic is little, however I do know how to use a lexicon, and what it tells me flys in the face of what you and Paul have said. I have asked both you to explain, I got nothing from you, and I was met with a wall of Sarcasm from Paul, even now he still has not responded the issues I raised most recently about the transliteration Khad b-Shabba.
I respect both you and Paul, but somehow I do not think this is reciprocated, or else the topic I started would not be facing impending deletion.
If you say Aramaic is Paul Younan's mother tongue, who am I object and indeed I do not. Also the evidence is clear from the posts on this topic by Paul that he has the perfect grasp of english, I cannot understand why you feel it necessary to mention any of this.
The only thing I would say is that the Aramaic spoken today is not the same the Aramaic spoken a 1000 years ago, never mind 2000 years ago! This is the whole nub of my argument which both of you have seemingly not understood or refused to accept. You only have to look at english over the last 500 years to see how much that has changed, and in linguistic terms english to aramaic is a mere infant.
So long and farewell,
Claud.
Clearly I cannot stop you deleting the topic, but even you conceded there is some degree of relevance to the Aramaic Primacy, by the fact that you said there is little relevance.
"It's not even a good 72 hour/literal three days and three nights Jonah argument." I never once mentioned 72 hours so I really have no idea why you feel the need to bring this up. 3 days and 3 nights does not have to be 72 hours, this would be a maximum. According to the Jewish practice of counting parts of a day or night as a whole, "three days and three nights" at a minimum has to include two full days, two full nights, and at least portions of another day and another night. to be considered "three days and three nights". therefore it could be as little as 48hours + fractions of another day and night.
I am not trying to reinterpret the Aramiac, I admit my understanding of aramaic is little, however I do know how to use a lexicon, and what it tells me flys in the face of what you and Paul have said. I have asked both you to explain, I got nothing from you, and I was met with a wall of Sarcasm from Paul, even now he still has not responded the issues I raised most recently about the transliteration Khad b-Shabba.
I respect both you and Paul, but somehow I do not think this is reciprocated, or else the topic I started would not be facing impending deletion.
If you say Aramaic is Paul Younan's mother tongue, who am I object and indeed I do not. Also the evidence is clear from the posts on this topic by Paul that he has the perfect grasp of english, I cannot understand why you feel it necessary to mention any of this.
The only thing I would say is that the Aramaic spoken today is not the same the Aramaic spoken a 1000 years ago, never mind 2000 years ago! This is the whole nub of my argument which both of you have seemingly not understood or refused to accept. You only have to look at english over the last 500 years to see how much that has changed, and in linguistic terms english to aramaic is a mere infant.
So long and farewell,
Claud.