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Greetings to one and all, One of my favorite websites is www.dukhrana.com It compares Greek-to-English translations with Aramaic-to-English translations. The Peshitta Tool compares Greek NT (Westcott-Hort 1881 combined with Nestle-Aland 27th variants) [apparatus], Greek NT (New Testament in...

Good post! They crucified the Living Word and now they're doing everything they can to crucify the Written Word.... :sigh:

Faust Nairon was a writer of eminence. His faith was Maronite. Regarding the Acts of the Apostles, Faust Nairon says that Jerome states the book was written in Greek, but that Metaphrastes says, Luke also wrote it in the language of his own country, which was Syriac. Metaphrastes was the...

The Greek copies called Aleph and B, are those on which Drs. Westcott and Hort chiefly rely. They say that the readings of these "should be accepted as the true readings, until strong internal evidence is found to the contrary." Yet, as Dean Burgon has said, these copies "have come to us without...

Joseph Simon Asseman, a highly esteemed orientalist of the early 18th century, considered Faust Nairon to be a writer of eminence. Of the Gospel of Luke, Faust Nairon says, that from the writings of Origen, Ambrose, Theophilact, and Epiphanius, it appears that Luke was a Syrian from Antioch, and...

Luke, guided by God's Spirit, said that the word Akeldama (in the ancient Eastern Text {Peshitta} - KHAQEL-DEMA), the field of blood, was part of the language commonly used in Jerusalem. There is no such word as KHAQEL, field, in ancient Hebrew. Edmund Castell and his assistants wrote a lexicon...

An interesting wordplay involves LITHELEH (foxes), MITLILEH (shelter), and LITH LEH (has no). Litheleh Niqeh Ait Lhun - "Foxes have holes" w'l'Parakhtha d'Shmaya Mitlileh - "And for the birds of the sky a shelter" L'Breh Din d'Anasha Lith Leh - "But the Son of Man has no" Ayka d'Nisamukh...

I didn't benefit from that type of teaching other than increased positive thinking. I could have gotten that much by reading Norman Vincent Peale's 'The Power of Positive Thinking'...LOL

What about 1st Timothy 6:6?? --- Godliness with contentment is great gain. Have we somehow turned this around to read "Contentment with great gain is godliness"?!?!?!? I fell prey years ago to the "Health and Wealth Gospel." The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale blossomed...

Syriac is a very ancient language. It belongs to the same family of languages as the ancient Hebrew. In the time of the Redeemer it was spoken, in slightly different dialects, in many countries. Syriac became the language of Palestine.—Dr. Frederic Delitzsch, Professor of Assyriology, in...

Don't give up on me yet....Let me try one more time with William Norton (his talent for writing lengthy but thought-provoking introductions is phenomenal)..... A translation, in English daily used, of the Peshito-Syriac text, and of the received Greek text, of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 1...

This work of Raphael Lataster that I contributed to discusses split-words, idioms, and many other issues. Concerning the first entry, "Burn or Boast", Dr. Bruce Metzger considers the "burn" reading to be "a grammatical monstrosity that cannot be attributed to Paul"... Was the New Testament...

The number of books on territorial spirits on Amazon, for instance, tells me that they are a major consideration in world evangelization. The one I saw while under the influence of LSD years ago looked more like a gnome. My guess is that these are lower-level evil spirits along the lines of...

I can't imagine how much He loves me but he must have a sense of humor that's clean off the charts to have servants like me... LOL