Thursday, July 21, 2016

Steve Caruso, Problems With Peshitta Primacy

On an LDS/Evangelical group I came across, a Protestant by the name of Ralf Chevalie Alvryd posted the following:




The problem with this image and his critic's argument is that it relies on the claim, popularised by the late George Lamsa, of the priority of the Peshitta. Some of the overwhelming evidences against this position can be seen in an article by Steve Caruso:

Problems with Peshitta Primacy

The overwhelming evidence and consent of scholarship is that Luke was written in Koine Greek. This "argument" is based on a faulty claim that even the majority of his fellow Protestants reject.