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before I begin
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Shlama,

i definitely encourage you to keep studying and be willing to ask the difficult questions. the truth is not afraid of us, so we should never be afraid of the truth.

personally, for me, some of the Peshitta's strongest points in regards to it being the source-text for most of the Greek manuscripts, are the multitude of variant explanations that have no answer in the Greek, as well as the even greater number of wordplays and puns in the text. these are extremely strong flags signaling an original text. as to dialect, remember that it can change and yet still be written with the same words/letters. there are instances of both Eastern and Western dialect preserved in the Peshitta which fit contextually in their respective passages. as for accuracy of the Peshitta, i would say it is FAR more accurate than the Greek manuscripts. actually, i recall reading it is more accurate than the Hebrew Torah, which is astonishingly accurate. we know the Greek disagrees with itself in many instances, and the Aramaic disagrees with itself really in only a couple of instances, and those are in regards to known theological controversies between the East and West. so if i had to go with accuracy alone, the Peshitta would win hands-down regardless of personal bias.

anecdotely, i do personal translations of the Hebrew and the Aramaic in my spare time, and i find just as many cleverly-constructed wordplays and puns in the Hebrew OT as i do in the Peshitta NT. when i do my cross-referencing of these respective passages with the Septuagint, targums, and the Greek NT manuscripts, i would say more than 99% of the time, there is no parallel wordplay to be found in those texts. in regards to the OT, nobody argues those texts are the original languages, so this strongly supports the idea that such Hebraisms/Aramaicisms don't survive the translation process except in VERY rare instances.

i am also in the process of learning ASL - American Sign Language, and as it is a fully-functioning, living language, it too possesses these same qualities of wordplays and puns. these puns do not translate into English or even French -- both major contributing languages to ASL. i bring this up to show that such language devices as wordplays/puns almost never survive the act of translating, and to find them liberally throughout the Peshitta is itself a powerful support for the text itself being original in most places.

those are just some language considerations i thought to share after reading your post. may you be blessed in your searching! do not grow weary in well-doing!

Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy
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before I begin - by Kara - 02-22-2010, 09:51 PM
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Re: before I begin - by Nimrod Warda - 03-10-2010, 02:09 PM
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