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Re: Strange New World Book



Hu'tegh! nuq ja' [email protected] jay'?

=Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 22:37:01 -0500
=From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
=To: [email protected]
=Subject: Re: Strange New World Book
=Message-ID: <[email protected]>

=The Hebrew Bible, called in Christian culture the Old Testament (which
=sometimes sounds funny to me, since for me it's the *whole* Bible) is
=written in Hebrew, with a few chapters in Daniel and the odd word here and
=there in Aramaic.  The New Testament is written in Greek (is there any
=evidence that it was translated into Greek from something else?  I wouldn't
=know).

There's an old wives' tale (admittedly, a fairly old one: 2nd or 3rd century,
I forget which) that Matthew was translated from the Aramaic. As far as I
can tell, modern Bible scholars don't believe it.

Revelations, on the other hand, might as well not be in Greek at all; its
author's command of the language is quite tenuous.

ObTlh: *Melbourne*Daq vItu'qa'lu', 'ej DuSaQ'a'Daq jIvumqa'. jIvumqu'mo',
pIj tlhIHvaD jIlI'qa'be' --- 'a chu'be' De'vam. *Sydney*Daq vItu'lu'taHvIS,
Paul Mackie vIqIH. tlhIHvaD tlhIngan Hol laHDaj vInaDnIS; Hol vajna' ghaH,
'ej jIQuchqu', ghaH vIqIHpu'mo'.

DaHjaj qaS wo' Hoch be' jaj. wIlopchu'jaj!

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