11-24-2008, 06:50 AM
Shlama Akhi Andrew:
This work is comprehensive. James Murdock does a thorough job of documenting the early history of the Peshitta New Testament. This is the URL for Yaaqub Younan-Levine's site and the on-line book,
THE NEW TESTAMENT:
TRANSLATED FROM
THE SYRIAC PESHITO VERSION.
THE NEW TESTAMENT; OR, THE BOOK OF THE HOLY GOSPEL
OF OUR LORD AND OUR GOD, JESUS THE MESSIAH
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Here is an exquisite exerpt from the book.
APPENDIX II.
THE SYRIAC TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES
THE VALUE OF THE PESHITO VERSION
REV. EZRA STILES, D.D., Pres. of Yale College, in his Inaugural Oration, says: " Kindred with this, [the Hebrew,] or rather a bath-kol, and daughter-voice, is the Syriac, in which the greater part of the New Testament (I believe) was originally written, and not merely translated, in the Apostolic age.... The Syriac Testament, therefore, is of high authority; nay, with me, of the same authority as the Greek."
This fascinating statement by Rev. Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College shows that he is learned in Talmud and Rabbinic literature when he makes his observation know as to the integral importance of the Peshitta New Testament. He calls the Aramaic Peshitta bath-kol and daughter voice. This same title is used in the Talmud Gamara in various places. One reference is in Talmud Masekhta Eruvin 13b.
I suggest that this title, kol / a voice is in it's shortened form when a voice speaks to Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:4, 7)and to Peter at the occasion of Cornelius the Centurion. (Acts 10:13, 15, 11:7, 11:9. The false proclamation by admirers, that Herod's voice is benot kol , is the cause of his miserable death by divine intervention. (Acts 12:22)
Remember that this book by Dr. James Murdock was written in 1852. The understanding of Aramaic New Testament Primacy is ni a time of revival and renewal. These 19th century scholars are a great boost in our present quest in documenting the Aramaic primacy of the New Testament.
Shlama,
Stephen
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This work is comprehensive. James Murdock does a thorough job of documenting the early history of the Peshitta New Testament. This is the URL for Yaaqub Younan-Levine's site and the on-line book,
THE NEW TESTAMENT:
TRANSLATED FROM
THE SYRIAC PESHITO VERSION.
THE NEW TESTAMENT; OR, THE BOOK OF THE HOLY GOSPEL
OF OUR LORD AND OUR GOD, JESUS THE MESSIAH
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Here is an exquisite exerpt from the book.
APPENDIX II.
THE SYRIAC TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES
THE VALUE OF THE PESHITO VERSION
REV. EZRA STILES, D.D., Pres. of Yale College, in his Inaugural Oration, says: " Kindred with this, [the Hebrew,] or rather a bath-kol, and daughter-voice, is the Syriac, in which the greater part of the New Testament (I believe) was originally written, and not merely translated, in the Apostolic age.... The Syriac Testament, therefore, is of high authority; nay, with me, of the same authority as the Greek."
This fascinating statement by Rev. Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College shows that he is learned in Talmud and Rabbinic literature when he makes his observation know as to the integral importance of the Peshitta New Testament. He calls the Aramaic Peshitta bath-kol and daughter voice. This same title is used in the Talmud Gamara in various places. One reference is in Talmud Masekhta Eruvin 13b.
Quote:R. Abba stated in the name of Samuel: For three years there was a dispute between Beth Shammai and Beth Hillel, the former asserting, ???The halachah is in agreement with our views??? and the latter contending, ???The halachah is in agreement with our views???. Then a bath kol issued announcing, ???[The utterances of] both are the words of the living God, but the halachah is in agreement with the rulings of Beth Hillel???.
I suggest that this title, kol / a voice is in it's shortened form when a voice speaks to Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:4, 7)and to Peter at the occasion of Cornelius the Centurion. (Acts 10:13, 15, 11:7, 11:9. The false proclamation by admirers, that Herod's voice is benot kol , is the cause of his miserable death by divine intervention. (Acts 12:22)
Remember that this book by Dr. James Murdock was written in 1852. The understanding of Aramaic New Testament Primacy is ni a time of revival and renewal. These 19th century scholars are a great boost in our present quest in documenting the Aramaic primacy of the New Testament.
Shlama,
Stephen
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