[B-Greek] Aramaic or Hebrew in NET Bible

Kevin Riley klriley at alphalink.com.au
Thu Jul 30 23:45:23 EDT 2009


A more accurate analogy is that Hebrew and Aramaic are like French and
Italian.  They obviously have a common ancestor (NW Semitic in one case,
Latin in the other), and while they are obviously different languages, the
borders are not obvious in a small number of cases (usually in areas where
the two languages meet).  They also share the similarity they they have
influenced each other after splitting apart, although one had more
(international) cultural prestige than the other and the influence is not
equal in both directions.  I suspect there is more difference between the
Hebrew of Genesis and the Aramaic of the Jerusalem Talmud than there is
between the Mycenaean tablets and todays newspaper in Athens, but I am not
sure exactly how one measures that.  After all, Hebrew and Aramaic were well
on their way to being different languages before anything was written in
Greek of any sort.

Kevin Riley
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Mark Lightman 
Date: 31/07/2009 11:40:34 AM 
 
--- On Thu, 7/30/09, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote: 
 
 
> Why not? "Greek" does not mean Ionic or Attic but both. 
> You can nurse a baby or you can nurse a drink. 
 
<Well, I don't think it's quite as if Hebrew 
And Aramaic were two dialects of the same 
Language.Wouldn't they be more like Latin 
And French or Latin and Romanian?> 
 
This is getting way off the topic, but that's 
Never stopped us before. I don't know if there 
Is more difference between the Greek of Homer 
And the Greek of Paul than there is between 
The Hebrew of Genesis and the Aramaic of 
The Jerusalem Talmud, because I don't read 
Aramaic, but I think there is. There are 
Plenty of people on this list who can answer 
That question. A language is a dialect with 
An army and a navy and I think Solomon had 
One, the Galileans did not. I don't know about 
The Romanians. 
 
Mark L 
FWSFOROS 
 



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