Toto

OF: judge has been advocting Aramaic priority on these boards for some time now. You can search the forum and find a number of previous threads, in which he has failed in his attempt to show that there is anything behind the idea, or that scholars have not given Aramaic a fair hearing.

Questions about the original text of the Bible

Was Mark written in Aramaic?

Was Romans written in Aramaic?

Orthodox_Freethinker

If you are correct, the Apostles did not write the New Testament. However, the unanimous witness of the early Church would disagree. That may not be good enough for everyone but you know what I mean.
While the Greek New Testament quotes the Septuagint, the Aramaic Peshitta quotes the Aramaic Tanakh.

Chris Weimer

I don't think you fully comprehend how it works. You see, when someone holds to the theory of Peshitta Primacy, it's their responsibility to submit it to the journal for peer review. Until you submit something, we don't have to do anything. What have you submitted?

Orthodox_Freethinker

Scholarship reconsiders its most basic of principles when an alternative theory would make better sense of the available evidence. While the Churches of the East have traditionally held to the Aramaic text and therefore have avoided the problems of the Greek text, the West has not.

Chris Weimer

The Aramaic priority, especially the Peshitta primacy, does not solve problems of the Greek text and creates numerous ones of its own. If you would kindly rummage through the threads I gave you, you would realize this. And scholarship, contrary to what you may think, is not in the habit of adopting a position of faith when it has absolutely zero evidence to support it.

NOGO

Come now, whom are you trying to kid.

Everybody knows that the Gospels were not written by the disciples (not apostles) of Jesus.

Whoever wrote the Gospels did not judge it necessary to sign his name.
Like many documents of the times the Gospels were written pseudonymously.

Show us the unanimous witness of the early Church.

The church was hard at work tracing a link back to Jesus simply because it did not exist.

Orthodox_Freethinker

There is a good amount of evidence in favor of Aramaic primacy. Textually, there are difficult passages in the Greek that make more sense in the Aramaic.

Orthodox_Freethinker

By 'everyone', do you mean modern secular scholarship? I'd recommend that you look for this novel idea in any notable Orthodox Christian thinker.

RUmike

I would further recommend that those Orthodox Christian thinkers look at modern secular scholarship. Maybe they will learn something.

Chris Weimer

Any textual student should know the basic rule of thumb lectio difficilior potior.