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Best way to learn Syriac for cheap or free?
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Thank you Steve. In fact, I did use that online "library" to browse through books and decide on what I wanted to buy. One book that is on the way as a result is Healey's Leshono Suryoyo, any thoughts on that one? I like that it has audio in both Western and Eastern. The sound files are freely available from the publisher here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/download/1-59333-190-8.zip">http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/do ... -190-8.zip</a><!-- m -->

The Robinson's they have in the "online library" is the fifth edition, I saw on amazon that there is a 2013 revision available, I am thinking of buying that one too. But what would maybe commend Robinson's above Healey's in your opinion?

About the Galilean, the fact that the corpus is almost inexistent for the time of Jesus, wouldn't that indicate that it didn't have the status of a formal language yet? And as such would have been outright rude for Jesus and His disciples to use it in general public discourse and written form?

One wouldn't expect to have a southerner US president starting to y'all all over the place. Although his speech might still betray his southernness, he'd work hard to speak proper Midwestern. But then when with his close friends and family he'd go back to y'all-ing. A hundred years from now, as a lot of intelligentsia decides to move from all over US to Texas, y'all is now all of the sudden acceptable presidential lore. <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile -->

So maybe both Thirdwoe and you are both right. Jesus and His disciples didn't speak Galilean (in public discourse generally and in written form), and Jesus and His disciples did speak Galilean (among themselves and areas where speaking otherwise would have been perceived as cocky). What do you guys think about that possibility?
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Re: Best way to learn Syriac for cheap or free? - by borota - 10-17-2014, 03:09 PM

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