01-05-2010, 01:58 PM
Hello,
Brother Lamsa has done a great deal for the Aramaic cause.
However, a translator, should as much as possible, not insert his own opinion which he did.
Besides the remarkable different translations the article mentioned (e.g. about angles/Jesus son-ship etc) he also translates 'possedness' with illness.
Simply because he believed that 'demons' never are a cause for illness.
His assumptions about the Greek translation are really not backed up by history.
It was a fact, there lived many, many greek speaking people in the middle-east. To state, for instance, that the Galatians received a letter from Paul in Aramaic, is kind of weird.
There even has been found a Greek fragment in cave 7 of the Dead See, which seems to contain a passage of Marc (in Greek).
There are aramaic primacists, who believe that the Greek Bible was translated instantly from Aramaic. I've got no names, but I'm one of them <!-- s
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Brother Lamsa has done a great deal for the Aramaic cause.
However, a translator, should as much as possible, not insert his own opinion which he did.
Besides the remarkable different translations the article mentioned (e.g. about angles/Jesus son-ship etc) he also translates 'possedness' with illness.
Simply because he believed that 'demons' never are a cause for illness.
His assumptions about the Greek translation are really not backed up by history.
It was a fact, there lived many, many greek speaking people in the middle-east. To state, for instance, that the Galatians received a letter from Paul in Aramaic, is kind of weird.
There even has been found a Greek fragment in cave 7 of the Dead See, which seems to contain a passage of Marc (in Greek).
There are aramaic primacists, who believe that the Greek Bible was translated instantly from Aramaic. I've got no names, but I'm one of them <!-- s
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