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From Was the New Testament Originally Written in Aramaic? This supposedly Greek book is full of bad grammar. Now I know that the Greek primacists like to use the term “Koine Greek” in regards to the Bible, rather than “translation Greek”… But were the Bible writers such bad writers that they couldn’...

Western Tradition teaches that New Testament is written in Greek while many of Eastern Tradition, especially Assyrian Church of the East (ACofE) teaches that New Testament is written in Aramaic. This issue goes deeper than I thought. A fundamental concept in early christianity is the 70 early chris...

In another thread there was a vacuous posting in response to a list of quotations I posted by James Trimm, , showing that all of the "Church Fathers", both East and West, testified to the Hebrew and/or Aramaic origin of at least the Book of Matthew. Trimm avoided the echo chamber of Greek-...

I probably have never seen a thesis that gives a first concrete example which seems to completely refute that thesis. :scratch: Lataster wrote: No - I'd guess you have never judged a thesis: it does not fail on one example when it's amongst : 38 Split Word examples 27 Semi Split Word examples 28 Po...

There's a copy of the Didache in Whiston's Apostolic Constitutions . It's a beautiful document and we've accepted the Didache into our canon, not as scripure as much as a community rule. It is a magnificent source of Christian non-ecclesiastical prayers; Whiston was one of the greatest Christian wri...

This is valuable information that I've been seeking. What you have offered here, with such brevity and focus, is hard to find! Thanks; I want to keep it focussed an on topic so I can use it in the fight against KJOnlyism, along with my KJV Howlers . What about 1) NKJV and 2) NKJV Study Bible? I wou...

It's only one verse but it's hugely famous, as it's the only verse the Vatican could get into the "TR" to pretend there is support for the Trinitarians, over Erasmus' explicit opposition . The catholic agent Stunica had a hand in providimg Erasmus with an offer he couldn't refuse; his lett...

The KJV was not a fresh translation, but a reedit of the Bishop's bible, which was itself was a reedit of Tyndale's bibles. I'm not sure if it meets the usual definition of tampering, but their decision not to consult the PeshittA tampered with the result. See for example: Aramaic: Let every soul be...

Paul clearly preached proxy baptism for the dead. Though evangelical, fundamentalist, and even Catholic churches will apologetically jump through hoops to deny this. Paul in Acts clearly did not preach proxy baptism for the dead, nor did any of the Jamesian church. There is a question about the pra...

early "Christians" who may have edited or wrote the NT books to have been gentiles, Not so: the early Christians ,who may have edited or wrote the NT books, were Hebrews who spoke Aramaic as their daily language. Their leader after Jesus was his brother James the Just who was exceptionall...