The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> another shot...

another shot...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, April 25 2012, 10:13:54 (UTC)
from *** - *** - Windows NT - Internet Explorer
Website:
Website title:

...regarding their ionsistence that "Syria" is derived from "Assyria";


“The designations Syria and Syrian were derived from Greek usage long before Christianity. When the Greeks became better acquainted with the Near East, especially after Alexander the Great overthrew the Achaemenian empire in the 4th century B.C., they restricted the name Syria to the lands west of the Euphrates. During the 3rd century B.C., when the Hebrew Bible was translated by Jewish scholars into the Greek Septuagint for the use of the Hellenized Jews of Alexandria, the terms for ‘Aramean’ and ‘Aramaic’ in the Hebrew Bible, were translated into ‘Syrian’ and ‘the Syrian tongue’ respectively.”

A footnote appears;

“The Authorized Version of the Bible continued to use the same terms that the Septuagint had adopted. In 1970, the New English Bible, published by Oxford and Cambridge University presses, and translated by biblical scholars drawn from various British universities, went back to the original Hebrew terms, using Aram and Arameans for Syria and Syrians respectively.” p. 9

...does this mean that the fools at Oxford and Cambridge are mistaken? I'm surprised then that you, and the others here who believe otherwise haven't contacted Oxford and Cambridge to tell them of their mistake, the way I'm going to keep calling attention to the administration of Wikipedia about your gross errors.

Returning to the text;

"In Palestine itself, according to Noldeke, the Jews and later the Christians there referred to their dialect of Aramaic as Syriac; in Babylon, both Greeks and Persians called the Arameans Syrians.” p. 10

A footnote;

See T. Noldeke, “Semitic Languages”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed. P. 625). The second-century B.C. Greek historian Posidonius, a native of Syria, noted that ‘the people we [Greeks] call Syrians were called by the Syrians themselves Arameans….for the people in Syria are Arameans’.” (See J.G. Kidd, ‘Posidonius’ (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 1988), vol. 2 , pt. 2, pp. 955-956.)” p.10



---------------------


The full topic:



***



Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9