Word play in aramaic and syriac

[Paul Younan]

Excellent points Akhay.

I think Steve is either not understanding my question, or intentionally ignoring the ramifications to his viewpoint.

Shayna is a purely "Syriac" term. It is unattested in any other Aramaic dialect.

I've used Akhan Steve's own criteria and logic. Except, my example really exists - in a primary text. His example (or I should say, the example of memdraya) does not exist in any written primary text. It's purely hypothetical.

Here is a word that is purely "Syriac" (as he and his fellows like to call it, I and all Assyrians I know hate the term). How can Yaqub, the brother of our Lord, be using a purely "Syriac" term to convey the word imagery? What happened to this mythical Galilean that was so different as to make the Aramaic of the Peshitta not "good enough?"

Akhi Steve, for every one hypothetical missed pun or wordplay you find that you attribute to an underlying "Galilean" dialect, I'll find five more that can't possibly work except in "Syriac." Except my examples will come from a real textual source, not hypothetical words I place in Christ's speech.

Deal?

+Shamasha