An aramaic approach to the Gospels and Acts  /
Black, Matthew.
Oxford : Clarendon Press,
1954.
The New Testament was preserved in Greek, but the events narrated in the Gospels and part of Acts took place in a largely Aramaic-speaking environment. Matthew Black therefore begins with the hypothesis that the material contained in these books was spoken or written in Aramaic. Black surveys the New Testament for Aramaic grammatical features (syntax, grammar, and vocabulary), poetic features (parallelism, alliteration), and other linguistic evidence that the New Testament text was translated from Aramaic. He uses this approach to shed light on difficult passages from the Gospels and Acts.
"An expansion of four lectures ... delivered, in the spring of 1940, under the Bruce lectures (Trinity college) foundation, to the New Testament classes of Glasgow university and Trinity college ... Submitted in manuscript as a thesis for the degree of D. Litt. of the University of Glasgow ... awarded in ... 1944."--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Previous work on the Aramaic of the Gospels and Acts -- The linguistic and textual approach -- Style and structure of the sentence -- The Aramaic subordinate clause -- Aramaic influence on grammar and vocabulary -- The formal element of Semitic poetry in the Gospels -- Mistranslation and interpretation of Aramaic -- Aramaic as a cause of variant readings -- Survey of results -- Appendix A : the West Aramaic element in the old Syriac Gospels -- Appendix B : the Arabic and medieval Gospel harmonies -- Appendix C : the unpublished work of A. J. Wensinck of Leiden -- Appendix D : the Aramaic liturgical poetry of the Jews.
The New Testament was preserved in Greek, but the events narrated in the Gospels and part of Acts took place in a largely Aramaic-speaking environment. Matthew Black therefore begins with the hypothesis that the material contained in these books was spoken or written in Aramaic. Black surveys the New Testament for Aramaic grammatical features (syntax, grammar, and vocabulary), poetic features (parallelism, alliteration), and other linguistic evidence that the New Testament text was translated from Aramaic. He uses this approach to shed light on difficult passages from the Gospels and Acts.
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