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ARAMAIC BOOKS
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He's been challenged and refuted here on the forum over the years, for some of his wrong assumptions. For instance, Steve doesn't seem to believe the Aramaic text of the Peshitta is any older than the late 3rd or early 4th century, and that the dialect it's given in is older than the early 3rd century. Which of course is mere assumption on his part, with no proof to back it up.

The presence of the Diatessaron in the mid 2nd century, which was used in the Aramaic speaking parishes of the East, and the fact that The Church of the East has existed since the mid 1st century and have had their copy of The Bible in their Aramaic language all along. He seems to think the Aramaic speaking Church of the East and their Aramaic Scriptures didn't exist in the 1st to the early 3rd century.

A Church of the East Bishop was present at the 1st Nicaean Council in 325 A.D. and to say that he and all his fellow Aramaic speakings Christians in the Eastern lands didn't have a Bible in their language at that late a date, is bizarre.

He hypothesizes that Jesus spoke in a very different dialect, called "Galilean", of which there is no evidence that He either spoke in it, or that the Apostles ever wrote anything in such a dialect, and if they did, that it was that different to what is found in the Aramaic NT today.

Its really all quite imaginary and based on a number of unfounded assumptions.

It has been shown that what is found untranslated in the Greek texts, were Jesus is speaking in Aramaic, that it matches near identical with what is found in the Peshitta's text.

I've asked him to show if there would be anything significantly different from what Jesus would have said in a supposed 1st century "Galilean" dialect of Aramaic, than what we have recorded in the Aramaic NT of the Peshitta as seen in the 5th century manuscripts, and he hasn't given anything.

Its really odd too, that his website and work at aramaicnt.org is called "The Aramaic New Testament", yet what he has displayed there is only the WEB translation, which is an English translation that comes from the Greek text, and where he has some words switched out in it's text....of what he believes are Jesus' "Galilean dialect", which are as well translated from the Greek text, I think, rather than the Aramaic text of the Peshitta.

I've asked him to explain that, and how it is that what he has there amounts in any way to The Aramaic New Testament, and he has decided not to answer, so far.

Steve, if you are reading this, please explain that.

If Steve had any actual evidence or any manuscripts to show that The NT ever existed in this "Galilean dialect", where it could be seen that his ideas are correct, and that it would make anything more clear as to what is written in the NT, then I would be glad to consider it. But, I say we are on very solid ground when it comes to the text of The Aramaic NT of The Peshitta.

Shlama,
Chuck

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ARAMAIC BOOKS - by Rev. James Clifton - 08-29-2014, 11:58 PM
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