07-26-2004, 05:45 PM
Shlama Akhi John,
Check out any chapter in the interlinear here and you will see that I, too, struggled with this when translating into English. I think you make a very valid point.
I think many scholars have made this connection, and they call the phenomenon in Aramaic the "Historical Present".
In Mark alone, this occurs 151 times. In Matthew, 93 times.
Check out any chapter in the interlinear here and you will see that I, too, struggled with this when translating into English. I think you make a very valid point.
I think many scholars have made this connection, and they call the phenomenon in Aramaic the "Historical Present".
In Mark alone, this occurs 151 times. In Matthew, 93 times.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan