05-20-2010, 06:27 AM
Shlama,
Here's a variant reading that I thought I'd toss out to see what the consensus is here:
NASB reads: If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
vs.
KJV reads: And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
the two Greek terms are, in SIL Galatia font:
fulaxj = keep
pisteuosej = believe
going to the Peshitta text, the reading is [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]r=n[/font] = keep
a similar-looking term for "believe" is [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]r4n[/font].
although somewhat similar in appearance, check out their Dead Sea Scroll (DSS Scribal font) counterparts:
r+n = keep
r$n = believe
the very close similarity between the Shin and the Tet make me think this option is a more viable explanation than the Estrangela script, as a scribe misreading the Tet as a smudged/faded letter Shin. either way, the Aramaic certainly explains it much easier than the Greek!
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Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy
Here's a variant reading that I thought I'd toss out to see what the consensus is here:
NASB reads: If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
vs.
KJV reads: And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
the two Greek terms are, in SIL Galatia font:
fulaxj = keep
pisteuosej = believe
going to the Peshitta text, the reading is [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]r=n[/font] = keep
a similar-looking term for "believe" is [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]r4n[/font].
although somewhat similar in appearance, check out their Dead Sea Scroll (DSS Scribal font) counterparts:
r+n = keep
r$n = believe
the very close similarity between the Shin and the Tet make me think this option is a more viable explanation than the Estrangela script, as a scribe misreading the Tet as a smudged/faded letter Shin. either way, the Aramaic certainly explains it much easier than the Greek!
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Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy