01-02-2009, 02:58 AM
Shlama Akhi Larry,
Yes, excellent point. Tertullian (160-220) actually wrote about this apocryphal work, so definitely late 2nd century. One of the earliest translations of Acts of Paul and Thecla was in Aramaic. (Tertullian also was the first to coin a particular phrase in Latin that I will not utter here.)
I would like to see though, because I don't know, where the Aramaic exclusive readings are excerpted. I wonder for example, if it might have the original reading for Acts 20:28 which would be an extremely powerful Peshitta primacist line of evidence.
Yes, excellent point. Tertullian (160-220) actually wrote about this apocryphal work, so definitely late 2nd century. One of the earliest translations of Acts of Paul and Thecla was in Aramaic. (Tertullian also was the first to coin a particular phrase in Latin that I will not utter here.)
I would like to see though, because I don't know, where the Aramaic exclusive readings are excerpted. I wonder for example, if it might have the original reading for Acts 20:28 which would be an extremely powerful Peshitta primacist line of evidence.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
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