Reasons Not To Study Greek

QashishaD at aol.com QashishaD at aol.com
Fri Jun 30 21:24:23 EDT 2000



In a message dated 30/06/00 10:41:02 AM, jkilmon at historian.net writes:

>I am sorry...but NONE of the NT books were authored in Aramaic.

I think by now I got the idea across that I really didn't mean to pronounce 
Aramaic as the original language of the NT. I do disagree with Jack, and have 
done so on another List, with the above. I think it likely that a few works 
of the Apostles may have been bilingual in their origin. 1Peter is an example 
of wonderful Greek, but the Aramaic text is more logical, with explicit OT 
quotes and representative of an epistle written to Jews, not to Gentiles as 
often taught. John's Gospel is a Semitic masterpiece, but much of this is 
lost in the Greek text. As the purpose of this List is the study of Greek and 
things pertaining to its use, I think it best we keep any discussion of other 
languages in conformity with that purpose.

>There are no extant Aramaic "originals" of any NT work.
True, nor are there any Greek ones. Let's use all of what history has 
preserved for us to search for the truth. Dimitri Grekoff



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