12-18-2007, 05:47 AM
How can I be making a presumption that He spoke in Aramaic when even Greek primacists admit this basic fact?
Am I making a presumption that He spoke Aramaic when I read His words on the Cross, or telling the dead girl to rise? In the Greek version, of all things?
You say you know Hebrew - do those phrases look anything like Hebrew to you?
The only way the Hebrew scenario even remotely stands a chance, is if it were:
(a) first penned in a now-lost Hebrew (don't ask me for whom, I have no idea, certainly not the Jewish masses),
(b) then translated into a now-lost Judean Aramaic (again, don't ask me why Judean Aramaic, a dialect a few hundred thousand at most spoke)
© then translated into Syriac, Greek, Latin etc.
With Standard ("Syriac") Aramaic, you had an audience spanning from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf numbering literally in the tens of millions. Including Mesopotamian Jews, Syrian Jews, Persian Jews....not to mention Arameans, Chaldeans, Assyrians, etc.
Why "Syriac", you ask? Simply because take a good look at any map of the time. It would have been, like now, the dominant Aramaic of the day. Maybe because historically speaking, it's been the largest dialect by far. And the only one that still survives, against all odds, till this very day.
Am I making a presumption that He spoke Aramaic when I read His words on the Cross, or telling the dead girl to rise? In the Greek version, of all things?
You say you know Hebrew - do those phrases look anything like Hebrew to you?
The only way the Hebrew scenario even remotely stands a chance, is if it were:
(a) first penned in a now-lost Hebrew (don't ask me for whom, I have no idea, certainly not the Jewish masses),
(b) then translated into a now-lost Judean Aramaic (again, don't ask me why Judean Aramaic, a dialect a few hundred thousand at most spoke)
© then translated into Syriac, Greek, Latin etc.
With Standard ("Syriac") Aramaic, you had an audience spanning from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf numbering literally in the tens of millions. Including Mesopotamian Jews, Syrian Jews, Persian Jews....not to mention Arameans, Chaldeans, Assyrians, etc.
Why "Syriac", you ask? Simply because take a good look at any map of the time. It would have been, like now, the dominant Aramaic of the day. Maybe because historically speaking, it's been the largest dialect by far. And the only one that still survives, against all odds, till this very day.