12-08-2013, 04:00 AM
ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:Thanks for the video Paul!
Do you believe that there was one translation of the Peshitta into Greek? It would certainly be interesting if they found an "Old Greek" New Testament! <!-- shocked: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/shocked.gif" alt="hocked:" title="Shocked" /><!-- shocked: -->
I was reading that the Alexandrian has rougher Greek, Byzantine smoother, and that the Western text-type is fond of paraphrasing. I can't read Greek (or Aramaic sadly), so I can't see exactly how different the exact words are in the various text types.
Hi Akhi
I believe the most likely scenario is that there were multiple translations, especially of the Epistles that were originally written in Aramaic.
The church in Ephesus would have translated their epistle independently of the church of Corinth and that of Rome, who would have translated their own epistles. It would have been done very early on, for the benefit of the non-Jewish members of those early communities.
At some point, they were collated into the collections we have today with the 3-4 main textual traditions of the Greek. There is no single version or textual tradition, there never was. Otherwise you wouldn't have all these families of texts. That is a sign of translation.
+Shamasha