07-10-2008, 05:49 PM
Acts 1:19
19.???And this is known to all those who live in Jerusalem, and so that field is called in the language of the region, ???Haqel Dama??? *, which is, in its translation, ???Field of Blood???.???
* This verse in Greek has the Aramaic name ???Akeldama??? , ???Akeldama??? transliterated, and says that ???In their language was called Akeldama , which is ???Field of blood???. Thayer???s Greek English Lexicon has this entry for akeldama :
184 Akeldama Akeldama ak-el-dam-ah??? of Aramaic origin, corresponding to 02506 and 01818 amd lqx;
n pr loc AV-Aceldama 1; 1
Aceldama =" Field of Blood"
So The Greek NT declares the language of the Jews in Jerusalem to have been Aramaic. Notice it says ???Their language???, not ???Their languages???. Only one language is mentioned as belonging to the region, and akeldama, ???Akeldama???, is plainly an Aramaic name of two words :lqx ??????Haqel???-???Field??? & amd-???Dama???- ???Blood???. So here the Greek NT says that the Jews of Jerusalem spoke Aramaic and contradicts the notion that they also spoke Greek; it also transliterates Aramaic here and elsewhere and then translates its meaning into Greek for a Greek audience. Luke came from Syria and probably wrote in his native Syrian Aramaic, which explains the translation of the Aramaic of Israel into Syrian Aramaic in this verse (???Field of Blood???) and in Acts 4:36, where BarNaba???s name (Israeli Aramaic) is defined in a Syrian Aramaic dialect.
Acts 2:20
20."The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood until the great and awesome day of THE LORD JEHOVAH will come."
The Greek mss. have epifanh ??? ???notable???, ???manifest???
where The Peshitta has )lyxd -???D???khyla???-???Awesome???.
???Notable??? would be .... )(ydy
or ........................ )ylgd in Aramaic.These are very similar;
The first two Aramaic words have about 75-80% letter correlation (4 of 5 letters are very similar)
not so in Greek: epifanh ??? ???notable???;
....................Foberon ??????fearful???
The Greek pair have 0% letter similarity.
Can we really believe The great day of Jehovah would be merely ???notable???? I cannot.
???Awesome??? it will be; ???Notable??? is a flimsy and lame substitute which grossly misses the point.
Acts 3:20
20. "And he shall send to you The One who was prepared * for you, Yeshua The Messiah."
* The Textus Receptus Greek (KJV Greek) text has ???Who was preached???; coincidentally , the Aramaic
by+md??????Who was prepared,appointed??? is very similar to b+md (???Who informed???) &
byb+d (???Who was made known,published???) . All other Greek mss. agree with The Peshitta reading. It looks here like The Textus Receptus represents an alternate Greek translation of The Peshitta Aramaic , which appears also to be the case in other places of The NT.
The two matched Aramaic readings have about 75% similarity.
The Greek readings are :
prokeceirismenon-"was appointed"
prokekhrugmenon -???was preached???
The Greek readings are also about 75% similar. The factor that decidedly supports Peshitta primacy in this example is that it is the Greek that has both readings, not The Peshitta. As in so many other examples, the Greek exhibits evidence of being a translation from The Peshitta in its variant readings. The Peshitta shows practically no variant readings corresponding to two or three similar Greek words; in fact, The Peshitta NT has practically no variant readings at all!
Acts 3:24
24. ???But God raised him and he destroyed the destructions of Sheol because it was not possible for him to be held captive in Sheol."
- ???He destroyed the destructions of Sheol??? is one possible translation; others are ???He loosed the cords of Sheol???,
???He destroyed the pains of Sheol???, ???He loosed the cords of the grave???, ???He has loosed the travail of Sheol.???
I have chosen the first as it presents the poetic paradox which is so powerfully employed in Scripture to highlight the power of God: He leads captivity captive, tells the poor they are rich, the rich are poor, the high are low and the lowly exalted, and finally kills death, casting death and Sheol into a Lake of Fire. Whichever translation is preferred, the Apostle Peter is declaring that Sheol has been defanged- neutralized & rendered impotent by The Messiah???s death and
resurrection. All Greek mss but codex D have ??? ???Lusav tav wdinav tou yanatou ??? ??? ???He loosed the pains of death???. Codex D , which usually seems to follow The Peshitta more closely, has ???Lusav tav wdinav tou adou ??? ??? ???He loosed the pains of Hades???.
???Hades??? is the Greek cognate for the Hebrew-Aramaic ???Sheol???. The Greeks sometimes translated the Hebrew ???Sheol??? with ???Yanatov???- ???Death???. (See 2 Sam. 22:6 Greek LXX and Hebrew, Prov. 23:14) . Both Greek readings (Hades & Death) represent The LXX translation words used for The Hebrew ???Sheol???, which is almost identical to the Aramaic spelling of ???Sheol???.The Hebrew of that verse (2 Sam. 22:6) has the phrase lwas ylbx ??????Khebli Sheol??? , where The Peshitta OT has the same phrase found here in Acts 2:24- lwys hylbx , translated, ???The pangs of Sheol??? by George Lamsa. atwmd hylbx is also found in that version of 2 Sam. 22:5 , which he translated ???Pangs of death???. The same text is repeated in Psalms 18:4,5 & 116:3 (115:3 in Peshitta) using the same Aramaic words in The Peshitta and the same translation in Lamsa.
19.???And this is known to all those who live in Jerusalem, and so that field is called in the language of the region, ???Haqel Dama??? *, which is, in its translation, ???Field of Blood???.???
* This verse in Greek has the Aramaic name ???Akeldama??? , ???Akeldama??? transliterated, and says that ???In their language was called Akeldama , which is ???Field of blood???. Thayer???s Greek English Lexicon has this entry for akeldama :
184 Akeldama Akeldama ak-el-dam-ah??? of Aramaic origin, corresponding to 02506 and 01818 amd lqx;
n pr loc AV-Aceldama 1; 1
Aceldama =" Field of Blood"
So The Greek NT declares the language of the Jews in Jerusalem to have been Aramaic. Notice it says ???Their language???, not ???Their languages???. Only one language is mentioned as belonging to the region, and akeldama, ???Akeldama???, is plainly an Aramaic name of two words :lqx ??????Haqel???-???Field??? & amd-???Dama???- ???Blood???. So here the Greek NT says that the Jews of Jerusalem spoke Aramaic and contradicts the notion that they also spoke Greek; it also transliterates Aramaic here and elsewhere and then translates its meaning into Greek for a Greek audience. Luke came from Syria and probably wrote in his native Syrian Aramaic, which explains the translation of the Aramaic of Israel into Syrian Aramaic in this verse (???Field of Blood???) and in Acts 4:36, where BarNaba???s name (Israeli Aramaic) is defined in a Syrian Aramaic dialect.
Acts 2:20
20."The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood until the great and awesome day of THE LORD JEHOVAH will come."
The Greek mss. have epifanh ??? ???notable???, ???manifest???
where The Peshitta has )lyxd -???D???khyla???-???Awesome???.
???Notable??? would be .... )(ydy
or ........................ )ylgd in Aramaic.These are very similar;
The first two Aramaic words have about 75-80% letter correlation (4 of 5 letters are very similar)
not so in Greek: epifanh ??? ???notable???;
....................Foberon ??????fearful???
The Greek pair have 0% letter similarity.
Can we really believe The great day of Jehovah would be merely ???notable???? I cannot.
???Awesome??? it will be; ???Notable??? is a flimsy and lame substitute which grossly misses the point.
Acts 3:20
20. "And he shall send to you The One who was prepared * for you, Yeshua The Messiah."
* The Textus Receptus Greek (KJV Greek) text has ???Who was preached???; coincidentally , the Aramaic
by+md??????Who was prepared,appointed??? is very similar to b+md (???Who informed???) &
byb+d (???Who was made known,published???) . All other Greek mss. agree with The Peshitta reading. It looks here like The Textus Receptus represents an alternate Greek translation of The Peshitta Aramaic , which appears also to be the case in other places of The NT.
The two matched Aramaic readings have about 75% similarity.
The Greek readings are :
prokeceirismenon-"was appointed"
prokekhrugmenon -???was preached???
The Greek readings are also about 75% similar. The factor that decidedly supports Peshitta primacy in this example is that it is the Greek that has both readings, not The Peshitta. As in so many other examples, the Greek exhibits evidence of being a translation from The Peshitta in its variant readings. The Peshitta shows practically no variant readings corresponding to two or three similar Greek words; in fact, The Peshitta NT has practically no variant readings at all!
Acts 3:24
24. ???But God raised him and he destroyed the destructions of Sheol because it was not possible for him to be held captive in Sheol."
- ???He destroyed the destructions of Sheol??? is one possible translation; others are ???He loosed the cords of Sheol???,
???He destroyed the pains of Sheol???, ???He loosed the cords of the grave???, ???He has loosed the travail of Sheol.???
I have chosen the first as it presents the poetic paradox which is so powerfully employed in Scripture to highlight the power of God: He leads captivity captive, tells the poor they are rich, the rich are poor, the high are low and the lowly exalted, and finally kills death, casting death and Sheol into a Lake of Fire. Whichever translation is preferred, the Apostle Peter is declaring that Sheol has been defanged- neutralized & rendered impotent by The Messiah???s death and
resurrection. All Greek mss but codex D have ??? ???Lusav tav wdinav tou yanatou ??? ??? ???He loosed the pains of death???. Codex D , which usually seems to follow The Peshitta more closely, has ???Lusav tav wdinav tou adou ??? ??? ???He loosed the pains of Hades???.
???Hades??? is the Greek cognate for the Hebrew-Aramaic ???Sheol???. The Greeks sometimes translated the Hebrew ???Sheol??? with ???Yanatov???- ???Death???. (See 2 Sam. 22:6 Greek LXX and Hebrew, Prov. 23:14) . Both Greek readings (Hades & Death) represent The LXX translation words used for The Hebrew ???Sheol???, which is almost identical to the Aramaic spelling of ???Sheol???.The Hebrew of that verse (2 Sam. 22:6) has the phrase lwas ylbx ??????Khebli Sheol??? , where The Peshitta OT has the same phrase found here in Acts 2:24- lwys hylbx , translated, ???The pangs of Sheol??? by George Lamsa. atwmd hylbx is also found in that version of 2 Sam. 22:5 , which he translated ???Pangs of death???. The same text is repeated in Psalms 18:4,5 & 116:3 (115:3 in Peshitta) using the same Aramaic words in The Peshitta and the same translation in Lamsa.