12-31-2013, 03:57 PM
Shlama Akhi Distazo.
I pay very little attention to Dave Bauscher in this regard, because he is not a native speaker and doesn't know what he is talking about in this case.
Semitic poetry has nothing to do with rhyme. Our poems don't rhyme.
Semitic poetry is about alliteration/assonance, syllabic metre, acrostics, word plays and orthographic parallelism.
Disregarding his claims about rhyme (which doesn't exist since almost every emphatic noun rhymes in Aramaic), there are no orthographic parallelisms, alliteration, acrostics, syllabic metre or assonance within this passage of the Aramaic translation of the Greek book of Revelation.
Which words in the supposed wordplays above are related orthographically in your opinion, in order to justify the claim of parallelism? What relation does the Aramaic word for tear (demaa) and the Aramaic word for water (maya) have ? Why relation orthographically do the Aramaic word for lamb (emra) and shepherd (raaya) have ?
Where is the alliteration and assonance that he claims?
With regards to your point about dukhrana, I don't need to read a translation of the book of Revelation on a website. If I desire to read a Greek book, I go to the Greek book itself and study it. I've rarely had that inclination, because to me the book of Revelation is how you would view the Book of Mormon. It's simply not part of our tradition, and I have no opinion on it otherwise. For the book of Revelation, I am a Greek Primacist, for whatever that is worth. We simply do not use the book for anything.
If you feel the book of Revelation had an Aramaic original to it, then show me real examples. I don't see it at all in chapter 7, perhaps the expert of Aramaic poetry Mr. Bauscher can point it out, so I can go show the Patriarch and elder speakers of the language how they've been missing out on some fantastic poetry all these years. <!-- s
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+Shamasha
I pay very little attention to Dave Bauscher in this regard, because he is not a native speaker and doesn't know what he is talking about in this case.
Semitic poetry has nothing to do with rhyme. Our poems don't rhyme.
Semitic poetry is about alliteration/assonance, syllabic metre, acrostics, word plays and orthographic parallelism.
Disregarding his claims about rhyme (which doesn't exist since almost every emphatic noun rhymes in Aramaic), there are no orthographic parallelisms, alliteration, acrostics, syllabic metre or assonance within this passage of the Aramaic translation of the Greek book of Revelation.
Which words in the supposed wordplays above are related orthographically in your opinion, in order to justify the claim of parallelism? What relation does the Aramaic word for tear (demaa) and the Aramaic word for water (maya) have ? Why relation orthographically do the Aramaic word for lamb (emra) and shepherd (raaya) have ?
Where is the alliteration and assonance that he claims?
With regards to your point about dukhrana, I don't need to read a translation of the book of Revelation on a website. If I desire to read a Greek book, I go to the Greek book itself and study it. I've rarely had that inclination, because to me the book of Revelation is how you would view the Book of Mormon. It's simply not part of our tradition, and I have no opinion on it otherwise. For the book of Revelation, I am a Greek Primacist, for whatever that is worth. We simply do not use the book for anything.
If you feel the book of Revelation had an Aramaic original to it, then show me real examples. I don't see it at all in chapter 7, perhaps the expert of Aramaic poetry Mr. Bauscher can point it out, so I can go show the Patriarch and elder speakers of the language how they've been missing out on some fantastic poetry all these years. <!-- s
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