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Originally posted by Dyshade
Dead languages are not very easily translated...... It took Sitchen a very talented linguist almost two years to succesfully translate the original tale of Gilgamesh..... though it was already translated he decided to do it from scratch to prove that the original translation was flawed..... Aramaic was not the original language of the Lords Prayer either.... it was translated into Aramaic from Hebrew...... and most of Hebrew "Mythology" was handed down to them from the Babylonians who in turn translated most of thier "Mythology" from the Sumerians..... we do not have any written records of any civilization existing before the Sumerians.... we do how ever have Artifacts left over from a Pre-Sumerian Culture who i would presume left thier beliefs to the Sumerians... or at least lent a few ideals to the creation of the Enuma Elish... |
By the time of Jesus Arimaic had replaced Hebrew as the common tounge of the Jews and that language was only used by the temple preists, so the Lord's Prayer would have orginally been in Arimaic. Modern Hebrew is no older than the state of Israel.