10-17-2014, 09:25 AM
I'm a Peshitta primacist and find Steve's work fascinating. While his conclusions might not be 100% correct, I'm sure they warrant a look see. I'm going to start using His site more when he puts more stuff up. Learning the Syriac and Galilean dialects of the Aramaic language would be very useful! Syriac and Galilean are two different dialects, but how different they are is a matter of debate. Only the Syriac dialect survives in a large corpus. Steve is utilizing the Peshitta and Greek New Testaments, as well as other sources (like surviving Judean, Galilean, and Samaritan Aramaic documents) in an attempt to reconstruct what he believes to be the Galilean Aramaic dialect of Yeshua Meshikha (Jesus the Messiah).