Shlama Akhi Dave,
Dave Wrote:I have 2 courses ordered and on the way, one for hebrew and one for syriac. The hebrew is for the OT of course, the syriac is so I can read what Juckel and aland recently put together. I want to get as close to the 1st and 2nd century greek texts as possible.
The peshitta is nice scholarship, a fine standardized translation. I like some of it's insight.
I am 100% behind your zeal in some respects.
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Also consider the extreme diligence that was demanded at the Nestorian schools.......
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Also Juckel and Aland will probably never look at things from this perspective.......
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"...to set forth in order a declaration..." of Luke 1:1 sounds
very Indo-European but get a load of this.....
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You can't even make it past Matthew 1:1 without running into an expression that is
thoroughly Semitic......
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Mark 1:24 has a phrase that is also
thoroughly Semitic.....
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What about Charismatics and Evangelicals having such a deep appreciation for the fact that salvation and regeneration enable us to become a
new creation? Take a look at this.....
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If you don't believe that the Peshitta Text is
very independent of the Greek......
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How about a missing sentence from the Greek Text of Matthew 28:18......
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Guys like Juckel and Aland (Kurt and Barbara I presume) would find guys like Norton despicable.....
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Shlama w'Burkate, Larry Kelsey