02-15-2005, 03:53 AM
Thanks for your detailed covering of this Paul.
I will use the info in my next encounter, and may infact, necro my 3rd debate thread where this came up from a hardline Baptist Zorban, who said.....
"Looking at the Greek constructions of the NT there is nothing there at suggests anything but Greek foundation in creation. There is no thread of evidence textually to suggest that Aramaic was ever present in the NT manuscripts. One of the primary reasons for this is the matter that the OT quotations used in several of the Gospels and other NT books are translated into Greek from the Hebrew. To translate from Hebrew into Aramaic then into Greek is not a viable process to undertake. In the creation of the NT documents, particularly the epistolary literature, it was the work of a secretary and the particular apostle done in Greek which is how the text was formed."
And feel free to throw down other thread links with similar evidence....
I have already cited the Targums to take care of some of his argument. But he and others I know believe the LXX was used in the translation of the OT quotes in the NT. So things like this help me in my future debates.
I will use the info in my next encounter, and may infact, necro my 3rd debate thread where this came up from a hardline Baptist Zorban, who said.....
"Looking at the Greek constructions of the NT there is nothing there at suggests anything but Greek foundation in creation. There is no thread of evidence textually to suggest that Aramaic was ever present in the NT manuscripts. One of the primary reasons for this is the matter that the OT quotations used in several of the Gospels and other NT books are translated into Greek from the Hebrew. To translate from Hebrew into Aramaic then into Greek is not a viable process to undertake. In the creation of the NT documents, particularly the epistolary literature, it was the work of a secretary and the particular apostle done in Greek which is how the text was formed."
And feel free to throw down other thread links with similar evidence....
I have already cited the Targums to take care of some of his argument. But he and others I know believe the LXX was used in the translation of the OT quotes in the NT. So things like this help me in my future debates.