For Andrew Gabriel Roth

[Paul Younan]

Was it someone that actually had a hand in the Translation that wrote to you Paul

No, it was just a letter from an attorney who represented them at the time.

A bit of history: when I first created the Lexical search on the "Tools" section, I used SEDRA which is a relational database created by Dr. George Kiraz. At the time, I did not realize that the data behind SEDRA actually was compiled by The Way International's team. So I thanked Dr. Kiraz in a footnote, which can still be found there:

This work makes use of the Syriac Electronic Data Retrieval Archive (SEDRA) by George A. Kiraz, distributed by the Syriac Computing Institute. For additional information on the structure of the Database, see G. Kiraz, 'Automatic Concordance Generation of Syriac Texts', in VI Symposium Syriacum 1992, ed. R. Lavenant, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 247, Rome, 1994.

So I though that was good enough.

Then, a couple of years later, Dr. Kiraz notified me that the data in SEDRA belonged to The Way, so I then included this footnote, which is still there today:

We thank The Way International Research Team (American Christian Press, New Knoxville, Ohio) for their monumental 15 year effort in compiling the data contained within this Aramaic Lexicon.

Well, apparently that caught someone's attention at The WAY, and I received a certified letter in the mail from their attorney who said, essentially, that thanking them for their "monumental effort" wasn't good enough, and that basically they would grant me a limited license to use the data as long as a copyright statement was placed on the top part of the Lexicon search.

So there you have it.....no numbering system or anything else that may resemble their Interlinear translation lest I receive another frightening letter. <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->