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A Big Question for whoever has time
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Dear Tom,

The Gospel message has been spread worldwide through the Greek-based versions of the New Testament. Aramaic primacy primarily concerns textual details rather than theological issues. There is no specific perfect Greek version of the New Testament but a variety of somewhat different versions.

According to the Greek scholars about 40% of the verses are significantly difference among all the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament in that there are two or more major differences among these verses (Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland, THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, pages 28-30, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michican, 1989).

Some smaller deviations can lead to some interesting difference in meaning, as well. For example the addition of one sigma in Luke 2:14 changes the message of the Angels, and in some cases whole verses are missing such as Matthew 18:11 (compare NKV with NIV, for example).This hodgepodge of small variations is a nuisance that is solved by study of the Aramaic Peshitta along with the so-called Western five books. Essentially all of these differences are clearly caused by small translation differences from Aramaic into Greek. Simon the "leper" was really a "jar-maker". The Ethiopian "eunuch" was really a "believer", for example.

If you choose between the NKJV and the NIV (or some other "modern" English version) you are going to be choosing between two somewhat different Greek source texts. You will be better off chosing a modern literal translation of the Aramaic New Testament.

New literal translations of the Peshitta are available. I recommend Andrew Roth's Aramaic-English New Testament which you can find at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.aent.org/">http://www.aent.org/</a><!-- m -->

Sincerely,

Otto
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Re: A Big Question for whoever has time - by ograabe - 11-21-2008, 01:32 AM
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