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Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge
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Akhi Paul,
I'm afraid you've misunderstood me. I didn't mean that theology plays a part in Peshitta primacy. I meant that for a Peshitta primacist, the Peshitta must fit with his theology. For a Greek primacist, if the Peshitta's theology disagrees with his own, he doesn't care. In reading the Peshitta you have a preconception of what it says on a lot of issues. Murdock and Etheridge did not. They could be brutally honest in translating because they had no need to read their theology into the text.
I'm sorry if you find it offensive for me to say that scholars have bias. But I really think that it is dishonest for a scholar to pretend he doesn't have one. Our biases affect our works, whether we like it or not. We really start with conclusions and then build proofs to back them up. as much as we like to think we start with evidence and reach conclusions it just isn't true.

Shalom,
Dawid
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Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by Dawid - 07-08-2008, 02:22 AM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by Dawid - 07-08-2008, 12:42 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by Dawid - 07-08-2008, 05:18 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by ograabe - 07-08-2008, 05:55 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by gbausc - 07-08-2008, 07:27 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by Dawid - 07-08-2008, 10:54 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by Dawid - 07-09-2008, 12:56 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by gbausc - 07-09-2008, 01:27 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by ograabe - 07-09-2008, 07:49 PM
Re: Comparing Lamsa with Etheridge - by gbausc - 07-09-2008, 11:53 PM

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