Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

Aramaic syntactical features influence the Greek of the Gospels throughout,. 
These features include verbs at beginning of sentences. joined clauses 
without conjunctions, parataxis, asyndeta and the use of KAI where Aramaic 
source materials (probably Aramaic notes) had waw consecutives.  In the case 
of Mark, the Latinisms are because this Aramaic speaking author, writing in 
Greek, is writing in Rome,
or Italy, for a Latin speaking readership.  The reference to the woman in 
Tyre as "a Greek, racially a Syro-Phoenician.."  ἦν δὲ ἡ γυνὴ Ἑλληνίς 
Συροφοινίσσα τῷ γένει was written for Romans.

I recommend:
Joseph Fitzmyer, The Semitic Background of the New Testament, Eerdmans
Matthew Black, An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts. Oxford 
University Press
Maurice Casey, An Aramaic Approach to Q. Sources for the Gospels of Matthew 
and Luke. 2002, Society for New Testament Studies'
Maurice Casey, Aramaic Sources of Mark's Gospel, 1998, Society for New 
Testament Studies.
Maurice Casey, coming in December 2010 
https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_3200P5B6Z.HTM

Maurice is currently conducting a colloqium on Jim West's "Biblical-Studies" 
group.

Jack Kilmon

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From: <TedBro AT aol.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:25 AM
To: <randallbuth AT gmail.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the hellenization of isaiah

> Randall:
>
> I'm initially skeptical but open to look at evidence of semitisms in the
> Gospels. One early question is whether "koine" Greek, as a spoken, living,
> first  century "language" contained semitisms. In other words, when 
> Semitic
> Peoples learned Greek, did elements (vocabulary, idiom, syntax) of their
> ancestoral tongue bleed into the new language? If so, the presence of 
> semitic
> traces in the NT text may not indicate a Hebrew or Aramaic Vorlage.
>
> Make sense?
>
> -Ted Brownstein
>
>
> In a message dated 10/17/2010 2:47:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> randallbuth AT gmail.com writes:
>
> One  needs to distinguish sources, translated into Greek and possibly
> used by  gospel writers from the gospel writers themselves.
> Linguistic evidence in  gospels does point to Semitisms, and
> specifically a Hebrew narrative (note  Aramaic) behind Mark and Luke.
> Perhaps produced by Jerusalem church before  the canonical gospels,
> like Qumran community that chose Hebrew, and perhaps  behind the Papias
> statement, too.
>
> Randall  Buth
>
>
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