10-19-2004, 05:16 AM
Shlama Akhay,
In order to really get the attention of the academic world in a profound way, we wouldn't present the weakest Aramaic scholarship we could find and compare it to the weakest Greek scholarship we could find. I said all that to say this.....The best effort I have found so far coming from the Greek camp is an 18-volume set by Randolph O. Yeager entitled The Renaissance New Testament. Despite his pastoral responsibilities and teaching obligations as a university professor, Randy managed to produce this work that took 46 years, mostly at 5 hours a day. I've just received volume 4 in the mail from an eBay purchase. It contains a harmonistic syllabus of Mark 1:1-2:22 / Luke 1:1-5:39 /John 1:1-4:54 and contains 657 pages. I wish it went into great detail concerning the many variants we've discussed here on the forum, but this is where it seems to be scant unfortunately.
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The only work I've heard of that analyzes every word of every verse in the Aramaic New Testament is the ongoing project of Terry C. Falla.
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The only thing that scares me is that this work is in a series where Bruce Metzger is a co-editor. Sheesh! <!-- s:crazy: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/crazy.gif" alt=":crazy:" title="Crazy" /><!-- s:crazy: --> <!-- s
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Falla's 'Key' Series will supposedly supersede the work of Henry Whish. If Henry Whish was an adamant Aramaic primacist like William Norton, we might find some interesting tidbits in his book.
Whish, Henry. Clavis Syriaca: A Key to the Ancient Syriac Version Called “Peshito” of the Four Holy Gospels. 1883. 588 pp. A verse-by-verse lexical and grammatical commentary. #1368. $40.
This is taken from this webpage...
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Shlama w'Burkate, Larry Kelsey
In order to really get the attention of the academic world in a profound way, we wouldn't present the weakest Aramaic scholarship we could find and compare it to the weakest Greek scholarship we could find. I said all that to say this.....The best effort I have found so far coming from the Greek camp is an 18-volume set by Randolph O. Yeager entitled The Renaissance New Testament. Despite his pastoral responsibilities and teaching obligations as a university professor, Randy managed to produce this work that took 46 years, mostly at 5 hours a day. I've just received volume 4 in the mail from an eBay purchase. It contains a harmonistic syllabus of Mark 1:1-2:22 / Luke 1:1-5:39 /John 1:1-4:54 and contains 657 pages. I wish it went into great detail concerning the many variants we've discussed here on the forum, but this is where it seems to be scant unfortunately.
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The only work I've heard of that analyzes every word of every verse in the Aramaic New Testament is the ongoing project of Terry C. Falla.
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Also...please read carefully points #1 and #2 of this webpage. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.whitley.unimelb.edu.au/Theological/SLP/about.pxml">http://www.whitley.unimelb.edu.au/Theol ... about.pxml</a><!-- m -->
The only thing that scares me is that this work is in a series where Bruce Metzger is a co-editor. Sheesh! <!-- s:crazy: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/crazy.gif" alt=":crazy:" title="Crazy" /><!-- s:crazy: --> <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/rolleyes.gif" alt="" title="Roll Eyes" /><!-- s --> <!-- sarcasm: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sarcasm.gif" alt="arcasm:" title="Sarcasm" /><!-- sarcasm: --> Falla's 'Key' Series will supposedly supersede the work of Henry Whish. If Henry Whish was an adamant Aramaic primacist like William Norton, we might find some interesting tidbits in his book.
Whish, Henry. Clavis Syriaca: A Key to the Ancient Syriac Version Called “Peshito” of the Four Holy Gospels. 1883. 588 pp. A verse-by-verse lexical and grammatical commentary. #1368. $40.
This is taken from this webpage...
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Shlama w'Burkate, Larry Kelsey