08-31-2014, 04:18 AM
It was indeed a somewhat different Aramaic dialect in some respects than what was spoken in Judea, but, it wasn't such that it couldn't have been understood. And we just don't really know which dialect they actually spoke....It was more an accent thing though, like in our English language variations, where we can all understand each other, though some of us sound kinda funny at times with certain words.
Look at the words and phrases which Jesus is recorded as saying in the Greek text though, which are untranslated, and you will see that they match up with what is found in the 5th century Peshitta manuscripts. And I believe, as Shamasha Paul Younan does, that Jesus and his Disciples most likely were quite fluent in a number of dialects, as they went out and traveled around and preached and taught all over the whole region and seem to have been understood very well.
In any case...the text is the same as to its content and its message. And that is what is important.
Look at the words and phrases which Jesus is recorded as saying in the Greek text though, which are untranslated, and you will see that they match up with what is found in the 5th century Peshitta manuscripts. And I believe, as Shamasha Paul Younan does, that Jesus and his Disciples most likely were quite fluent in a number of dialects, as they went out and traveled around and preached and taught all over the whole region and seem to have been understood very well.
In any case...the text is the same as to its content and its message. And that is what is important.