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The "O" argument
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judge Wrote:
Dawid Wrote:Likewise, the unification of the Peshitta tradition can be explained. It was used by only two communities, essentially isolated from outside influence. Because old versions are regularly burned or buried, we would eventually expect to naturally find no more variants, even where there were variants originally.

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A problem I see with this is that we have no evidence or record of any such unification.
In modern times the idea of editing and unifying of texts seems to have started with criticism of the Hebrew bible or OT. But here the arguments were carefully put together on internal evidence within the books themselves.
No such parallel can be found in the peshitta (at least that I have seen put forward).

I just dont think this sort of argument from silence, without corroborating evidence, can have legs.

On the other hand the bifurcation of the peshitta into the peshitta and peshitto does have an explanation. That being that the westerners, under the influence of the Byzantines changed Acts 20:20 and Hebrew 2:9 for theological reasons and added the other five books as those in the west had done.
Actually, mine is not an argument from silence. The idea that the Peshitta has no significant variants at present, on the other hand, is an argument from silence. "There are no extant variants, therefore there have never been any variants" is very much an argument from silence. All I've done here is to point out that that proves nothing. There is another simple, logical explanation.
Of course there is no evidence of it. Just like there is no evidence of the destruction of the variants of the Qur'an besides the story (and I'm suggesting a much more gradual process for the Peshitta than any kind of purge like the Qur'an).
I'm not saying that they created a critical edition. I'm saying that a particular version became the standard, the others fell out of use, and were burned or buried as they fell out of use. Thus the text could easily have become standardized. No variants where there had once been variants.

I'm not about to disagree with the idea of the bifurcation of the Peshitta. But it's not an "either/or" so much as a "both/and" issue.
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The "O" argument - by Dawid - 08-25-2009, 01:58 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by enarxe - 08-26-2009, 06:59 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 08-27-2009, 12:44 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by Nimrod Warda - 08-27-2009, 03:42 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by enarxe - 08-27-2009, 07:27 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 08-28-2009, 12:49 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by Christina - 08-29-2009, 02:26 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 08-29-2009, 03:19 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by gbausc - 09-11-2009, 12:24 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-11-2009, 09:41 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by gbausc - 09-12-2009, 04:09 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-13-2009, 02:26 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-13-2009, 02:28 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by gbausc - 09-13-2009, 08:55 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-14-2009, 05:53 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by gbausc - 09-14-2009, 07:44 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-14-2009, 11:10 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Thirdwoe - 09-15-2009, 12:48 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-17-2009, 02:42 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-17-2009, 02:51 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Thirdwoe - 09-17-2009, 06:32 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by judge - 09-19-2009, 07:09 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by judge - 09-19-2009, 07:12 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by judge - 09-19-2009, 07:26 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-20-2009, 01:41 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-20-2009, 01:42 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-20-2009, 01:48 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by judge - 09-21-2009, 04:49 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by judge - 09-21-2009, 05:02 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by Christina - 09-21-2009, 08:54 AM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-21-2009, 10:24 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-21-2009, 10:31 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by Dawid - 09-21-2009, 10:36 PM
Re: The "O" argument - by judge - 09-22-2009, 09:32 AM

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