#45, RE: Revising Peshitta
Posted by Paul Younan on Mar-25-2002 at 06:14 PM
In response to message #44
Shlama Akhi Yaqub,>>>The Byzantine txt corrects Peshitta at
>>>John 1:18 ‘the only begotten
>>>(of) God’ seeing that it
>>>is consistent in John 3:16
>>>who the real begotten is.
>
>Remember akh Paul this was one
>of my points weeks ago?
>That is, the Byzantine is
>a correction as Peshitta and
>Papyri agree on 'only begotten
>God'. The genitive is a
>gloss. Mar Drywood went on
>about the genitive case afterward.
>His statements did not reflect
>a basic understanding of first
>semester Koine Greek. I want
>that to be very clear
>to others on this forum.
That's what he's trying to get to!
>However Mar Drywood is correct about
>Byzantine scribes which had to
>change the text to agree
>with 3:16 and that is
>how glosses occurr.
Absolutely.
>Akhi Paul did you mean to
>draw a parallel between Quran
>& GNT?
Not at all, Akha. I was simply trying to make the point that as Muslims feel that the NT must be compared to the Quran to get to the truth - in the same way Mar Drywood is trying to tell me that the Aramaic scriptures must be compared to the Greek (that is, his favourite manuscripts of the Greek.)
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