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Re: Hebrew Texts

Aug 29, 1997 06:04 PM
by Dr. A.M.Bain


In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.970828212612.906B-100000@ModZer0.dcc.uaf.edu>,
Jaqtarin Samantha Triele <triaism@modzer0.dcc.uaf.edu> writes
>With the bible I have, the OT is Biblical Hebrew, Old Hebrew as some call
>it.  The NT is Aramaic.

What scripts?  Is the Aramaic in square hebrew, or different characters?
There are three main variations from different periods.  I have a NT
diglot of the Peshitta text in facing pages of hebrew and aramaic from
the Bible Society in Jerusalem.  Some of it is eye-opening.

Alan


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