12-26-2009, 08:18 PM
Shlama,
welcome!! i haven't checked that, but i certainly will now.
interestingly, just yesterday i was working on a personal translation of the Peshitta's book of Ephesians, and i ran across a passage quoted from Psalms about Messiah "leading captivity captive," and the Greek text doesn't align with the Septuagint's rendering in that passage. i went back to the Peshitta A"NK to see that reading, and the Aramaic is the same as the quote from Ephesians. when compared to the Aramaic, it actually becomes evident that that particular Greek quote would have had to have arisen by being translated from the Peshitta's Ephesians passage, and not the other way around, since the Greek itself doesn't align with the Septuagint. i was planning on posting my find here, because i think it is an excellent example of "which text came first." hopefully i'll have more time later on today to do that.
that stated, i think this area of source-quoting / alignment is a very meaningful and powerful area to study. more needs to be done here.
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy
welcome!! i haven't checked that, but i certainly will now.
interestingly, just yesterday i was working on a personal translation of the Peshitta's book of Ephesians, and i ran across a passage quoted from Psalms about Messiah "leading captivity captive," and the Greek text doesn't align with the Septuagint's rendering in that passage. i went back to the Peshitta A"NK to see that reading, and the Aramaic is the same as the quote from Ephesians. when compared to the Aramaic, it actually becomes evident that that particular Greek quote would have had to have arisen by being translated from the Peshitta's Ephesians passage, and not the other way around, since the Greek itself doesn't align with the Septuagint. i was planning on posting my find here, because i think it is an excellent example of "which text came first." hopefully i'll have more time later on today to do that.
that stated, i think this area of source-quoting / alignment is a very meaningful and powerful area to study. more needs to be done here.
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy