05-02-2013, 04:40 AM
Akhi Ivan
In isolation, things are more easily preserved.
In co-mingling, the weaker side is often assimilated into the stronger side. Even if the weaker side resists, and somehow manages to avoid being completely assimilated, it is eventually diluted to such an extent that it becomes unrecognizable. It becomes more like the majority. It becomes a strange mixture.
Hence, you have bishops names like "Mar Severus", "Mar Ignatius" and "Mar Philoxenus." Aramaic title, "Mar". Greek names after the title. A strange mixture.
When looking for something more closely related to its original state, start by looking for a remnant which remained in isolation. They can evolve over time as well, but to a much lesser extent, and for different reasons.
Mesopotamia was free from Hellenistic influence. The isolated Christianity which developed there retained more closely its original Semitic form. In many areas: linguistic, cultural, etc.
This would have been the case in Europe, as well, had paganism remained the official religion. The worst thing that could have happened for the preservation of Semitic Christianity in Europe, was for Constantine to have converted and established it as the official creed of Byzantium, by sword against pagans and by fist against Aramaic Christianity.
The eastern Aramaic manuscripts were in isolation. The western Aramaic manuscripts were not. That is the reality of history. And it has a lot to do with the answer to your inquiry regarding why the SOC are Greek primacists today.
+Shamasha
In isolation, things are more easily preserved.
In co-mingling, the weaker side is often assimilated into the stronger side. Even if the weaker side resists, and somehow manages to avoid being completely assimilated, it is eventually diluted to such an extent that it becomes unrecognizable. It becomes more like the majority. It becomes a strange mixture.
Hence, you have bishops names like "Mar Severus", "Mar Ignatius" and "Mar Philoxenus." Aramaic title, "Mar". Greek names after the title. A strange mixture.
When looking for something more closely related to its original state, start by looking for a remnant which remained in isolation. They can evolve over time as well, but to a much lesser extent, and for different reasons.
Mesopotamia was free from Hellenistic influence. The isolated Christianity which developed there retained more closely its original Semitic form. In many areas: linguistic, cultural, etc.
This would have been the case in Europe, as well, had paganism remained the official religion. The worst thing that could have happened for the preservation of Semitic Christianity in Europe, was for Constantine to have converted and established it as the official creed of Byzantium, by sword against pagans and by fist against Aramaic Christianity.
The eastern Aramaic manuscripts were in isolation. The western Aramaic manuscripts were not. That is the reality of history. And it has a lot to do with the answer to your inquiry regarding why the SOC are Greek primacists today.
+Shamasha