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book of Hebrews: better from Greek, or Aramaic?
Tatian started with the Aramaic Peshitta to compile his Diatesseron; we presently lack his creation in Aramaic, but do have it in Arabic translation.
In two locations, the Arabic Diatessaron speaks of lunacy using the expression "son of the roof." From where do you think that Aramaic expression came? (the Aramaic Peshitta Matthew, which Tatian used when assembling his Diatesseron? from Tatian taking a Greek Matthew lacking the expression, and translating that Greek Matthew into Aramaic?)

Diatessaron, Section VII
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/te...saron.html
[~10] And the news of him was heard of in all the land of Syria: and they brought unto him all those whom grievous ills had befallen through divers diseases, and those that were enduring torment, and those that were possessed, and lunatics,^3 and paralytics; and he healed them.
3: Lit. _son-of-the-roofs_, a Syriac expression....

Diatessaron, Section XXIV
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/te...saron.html
30 And after that, there came to him a man from that multitude, and fell upon his knees, and said unto him, I beseech thee, my Lord, look upon my son; he is my only child: and the spirit cometh upon him suddenly. A lunacy^4 hath come upon him, and he meeteth with evils. And when it cometh upon him, it beateth him about; and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and wasteth; and many times it hath thrown him into the water and into the fire to destroy him, and it hardly leaveth him after bruising him.
4: Lit. _The-son-of-the-roof_, a Syriac phrase meaning _a demon of lunacy_.

In the Peshitta, both Mt 4:24 and Mt 17:15 have 'bar agra' i.e. 'son (of the) roof.'
http://dukhrana.com/peshitta/analyze_ver...ize=125%25
http://dukhrana.com/peshitta/analyze_ver...ize=125%25
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RE: book of Hebrews: better from Greek, or Aramaic? - by DavidFord - 12-24-2019, 09:32 PM

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