A talk · 34 min audio
I
Why Aramaic?
what this language opens, and how firmly we can stand on it
The case for listening beneath the Greek at all: what a verb-based root language does to concepts like spirit, kingdom, and repentance, and where the firm ground actually ends. Given as a talk; read it or listen.
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II
The Four Words Beneath “Save”
one Greek word-family, four Aramaic roots, and a rendering that stopped flattening them
Where English says “save,” the substrate says four different things: living, setting free, rescuing, healing. How 43 verses were recast, and what “the Life-Giver of the world” restores.
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V
Does Yeshua Sometimes Contradict Himself?
sixteen sayings that look like collisions, sorted into four kinds, and why three of the kinds stop being collisions
Do not judge, and judge rightly. Not peace but a sword, and my peace I give you. Why do you call me good, and I am the good shepherd. Two of them the Peshitta lets us count: it keeps two different words for the peace sayings and one word for the two goods, so the moment decides. The essay argues that his consistency is a physician’s rather than a legal code’s.
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