#1, RE: Compendious
Posted by Paul Younan on Mar-15-2002 at 07:31 PM
In response to message #0
Shlama Akhi Iakov,The Compendious is great. The only complaint I have (other than the script) is that it is heavily slanted toward the Western Aramaic/Syriac dialectic tradition, which in many cases does not reflect the Eastern (more archaic) tradition.
The language in Mesopotamia was more pure than in Syria and the Levant where Greek influence, especially over time, wreaked havoc on the definition of very important terms. (We saw this with Qnoma.)
I'm at work and don't have my copy with me - what's the comment on bar-nasha?
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