12-23-2009, 02:48 PM
It is sad and depressing to see the Holy Scriptures being attacked because of Greek Primacy. Before Westcott & Hort came on the scene, the Aramaic Peshitta in the West was widely respected as being an ancient, reliable version of the New Testament - even although people (in the West) still believed in Greek Primacy. But due to the prevalence of Greek Primacy and the many problems and conflicts in the Greek text, the Bible itself is easy to attack. The Aramaic Peshitta repeatedly stands up to all these attacks, which are really only valid for the Greek and Latin translations.
A new site:
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is trying to highlight all these issues, and bring the claims of Aramaic Peshitta to a wider audience. Hopefully when people can examine the issues for themselves, the claims of Greek Primacy will be seen to be false. Comparing the Aramaic Peshitta with the numerous variants in Greek, it becomes very obvious very quickly, that the Aramaic Peshitta is the original, and the Greek/Old Syriac are copies or translations. Part of the problem is that knowledge in Aramaic is sadly lacking, and is not really taught in universities and seminaries any more, so that Bible students do not have the knowledge to defend themselves against false attacks.
My view is that Truth will always win in the end, even if it takes years.
A new site:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://allthingsaramaic.com/">http://allthingsaramaic.com/</a><!-- m -->
is trying to highlight all these issues, and bring the claims of Aramaic Peshitta to a wider audience. Hopefully when people can examine the issues for themselves, the claims of Greek Primacy will be seen to be false. Comparing the Aramaic Peshitta with the numerous variants in Greek, it becomes very obvious very quickly, that the Aramaic Peshitta is the original, and the Greek/Old Syriac are copies or translations. Part of the problem is that knowledge in Aramaic is sadly lacking, and is not really taught in universities and seminaries any more, so that Bible students do not have the knowledge to defend themselves against false attacks.
My view is that Truth will always win in the end, even if it takes years.