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Show -- J - e Lectur-- Our Bible and the Ancient Man- 1914): 'Jame" Hope Moulton uscripts, 4tii ed., 'mitt (I4ndon "Language of the NT,7, HDB Eyre Seg.pottiswoode, 1948), p. (Single Vol., p. 530a). . The Revisers whe produced 98, n. The thit recently issued Revised SynopUnder this thesis, tic Gospels were written about Standard Version, state they the years 65 to 15, Mark being were divided on this point of the earliest; Acts belongs to the the language of the original same periods; Revelation about ords, though they refrain from . say: 95; and John late in the . cen- discussing 36.) the was 'Since tury. (The Ftory, p. first gospel , tven as .4 :t.4:t .4:t Luke w4 written at the endi proclaimed in Aramaic, it 'knot 7 (Fulllitk: of alectur unto us, which from the begi- otKenyon"sClorly4ears,'!...whe su President 1. Reuben Clark Jr., e Lord's words of Jesus and the apostles and (as Kenyon .says) n431:wn delsvered Wednesd ay, July 7, retain even in translation much- -life and- ,- teaching , ministers of the 4iord; 1954, before the tommer telisoss of Els that is characteristic of the orig- - in the orally', preaching "It seemed good to me also, r written records inalSemitic sentence struc-bad perfect understand- disciples,:ovin bavhii to ture and idiom.. Whether there Tear which have not come down of all thing e prom the very rs le was any direct translation Of 36.) - it y, Provo, ing p. Story, Young n t o thee in :Luke eipiessly says: "For- written Aramaic sources, in ad- Utah.) first, to write order, most eXcellent TheophB- asmuch as many have taken in dition to the preservation of Elder Harold B.L e e atigi of dec- - Semitic ways a in order forth set to speaking hand UIL , and oral gested that I speak about the "That thou mightest know 'oration of those things which through tradition is a question on following subjects: translation, believed most among are surely of the those things, certainty which the members of our The King' James Version' of where'll thou bast been in- us. mittee do not agree. It is also, the Bible; the Value of the as Critics say, structed." already . noted, 1:104.) (Luke however, a question which was Bookof Mormon; and When have records ' n a these that totally Inv der critical Kenyon, never debated in the Commit-le-y are the Writings or Sermons of know not We do authority, alrms, on the point disappeared. Church Leaders Entitled to the were tee, because the basic assump. of the written record of Christ's the language in which that our responsibility was Claim of Scripture. written. But since Jesus and his tion work and teachings: to translate the Greek text , Since the subjects are broad have to are conceded "We see first of all a period disciples made ruch considerations ir-and we have only an hour, I Of some forty years when the spoken in Aramaic; sl oc e in I a h permission, have, with this would be the relevant"- - (M tiler Burrows, ' of part our life and Lord's narrative large common people "The Semitic Background of the planned to speak only uppn two teaching pirculated orally, in the janguage of the New Testament, An Introduok ' of them: The King James VerPalestinian-Syrianof whole the preaching of Ills disciples, or in tion to the Revised Standard sion of the Bible, and When 4 written records which have, not Mesopotamian region; since the Version (The International are the Writings or "Sermons of the and works teachings come to down and when CLARK PRESIDENT us; Council of Religious Education, of Church Leaders Entitled to lectures on striptires St. Paul was writing his letters Savior would first pass out 1946) RP''' 2741) the Claim. of Scripture. Lto various Christian churches among the, common people of the region (inevitably it would One authority calls attention Regarding the- King' James which and his he companions dis- to the possibility that John the Version of the Bible I filial not the vernacular In his bad founded." (Sir Frederic seem from geographical propinsay very much. So far as the courses, and not the alien lan- Kenyon, The Story of thetBible lofty); since, as also Seems in. Apostle' used an Aramaic text King James Version as against guage of Gres4e.4 (G. H. Gwil- (London; John Murray 1949) evitable' in the situation, not in his work. (Edward Miller, to the Textual Critithe Revised Standard Version alone would the word pass by A Guide ' of Christ," p. 3546.) -Of the New Testament is con liam, "Language of mouthout word pales. cism of the )m 'times which at ,the tine to the surrounding, areas, (London, George Bell and Sons, eerned, I think it best to leave James Hastings, ed., Dictionary theRegarding , that matter rest now with my of the Bible, Complete in One books various New Testament but by written retord ask well: 1888) P, K4mYon (a1): since talk at the last Conferenee, To EllE that The all es vigrelied upon the Greek text we low have parently principally go into greater detail than was Scribneft. Sons, 1952); 580- orotsly protest against an orig. Revisers Revised of the the by Rp. would far 'then given contains many passages that are Inal Aramaic text, and contend require IStandard Version) comments! more time than one full hour. 5313 recognized as translations of that those originalsthe Sacred , "Since the As4to the publication 'of Aramaic expressionsmay We talk was published in the language io which , Autographs, as they call them - The ed e Deseret News April 10, 1954, must we not, of ;Christ's Barnacles Chronologie der altwere in Greek. They declare ecord and The Improvement Era, works and teachings wt., made, christlichen Litteratur in 1897 that the earliest records their prime purpose to be the been admitted it has generally 1 of the works and June, 1954. Furthermore, the we may briefly note the followand establishment of chingS,rd that, with very few exceptions, Jesus, probably the ones ::to discovery BOokeraft Company obtained ing facts: this text. The creek original the traditional dates of the New which Luke refers, were made iipproval to issue it in pamphlet As great scholars Westcott and intimated, it Testament .books may 'form and anyone interested can seems already this being true, fort (whose influence Inliramaic,-annaturand clear, quite as approximately cor- the Greek texts of the Gospels trolled the British secure a copy from them. (I and Amerially so, that. the teachings of may add parenthetically that Christ spread first into the rect. The doctrines of the school are really '(i 94 all Likelihood can Revisions of the 1880's and I have not a penny of financial of which Baur, regarded the indeed in major part) founded 1001, kin influence that still is surrounding Palestine. interest of any sort in that print country Christ himself journeyed north- earliest Christian hooks as a upon and are translations of dominant- In Extreme Textual- . .Ing project; they did kindly pre- ward out of Palestine proper tissue of falsifications of the sec- Aramaic records? , ist circles) built up a theory to sent me with a hundred copies into Phoenicia. Indeed, it was ond century, have been exSome scholars point; out that destroy the value "of the 'early I add here that t h e Syrophenician ploded. 'That time,' says Have Ptipias (who was martyred Aramaic versions, a Might gratis.) But theory that la few paragraphs abouttoday the lan- woman came to him, asking Duck, 'is over. It was an ePtsode, sibont 163),"(as usually under- - the modern critic Ken)on (fol. guage in which Jesus spoke and that he heal her daughter af- during which science learned stood) shows they were first lowingthe appraisals of earlier in which the earliest records flicted of an evil spirit. In the much, and after which it must written down" in Aramaic. critics hostile to the -tconversation which passed be- forget much.' Recent discoveries (Putnam's Handbook of .Univer- characterizes as myth. heory) might have been made. (ClarThere seems no doubt' but tween them, the woman, reply- have only confirmed this con- sal History, New York and Lon- - ence T. Craig, "The King James of at the time that, Jesus, the ing to a question put by Jesus clusion." (Sir Frederic Kenyon, don, The Knickerbocker Press, and the American' Standard , language of Palestine land the his favorite method of disconVersions," An Introduction, p. countries Adjacent thereto, par- certing those ,w h o pressured 16; Kenyon, Our Bible, p. 1151 ticularly to t h e immediate himgave the only answer Whether an Aramaic text, if Arand was south) north, Least, one existed, will ever be dia.that, so far as 1 have observed, &male. It seems clear on the left covered is a matter of consider-Jesus obliged to speak that in his teachings further. F or, tiftei a rebuff able because - - evidence 'doubt, titose early to the people the Lord spoke in from the Savior, who told her records were all written on Aramaic. is some sugge- that it weal not, meet to take the which papyrus perishes with stion-ttirh-e may have Used children's bread and cast it to time, have in very dry climates Greek, but one scholar (a Christ- the dogs, she replied: "Yes, such as Egypt, where such rec- ian Jew) says, "A Jewish Mese Lbrd: yet the dogs under the ords have been found dating siah Who would urge Ills claim table e a t of the children's back as Jar as the second and ''. upon Israel in Greek, seeirs al- crumbs." W b u p o it Jesus third centuries (the Chester i most a contradiction In terms,"- said unto her: "For this saying Beatty papyri and others): ReT h e Life (Alfred Edersheim, go thy may; the devil (.gone cently, as I recall a very old , and Times of Jesus the Messiah, out of, thy daughter." (Mark papyrus record was found' in 3rd ed. 28th imp. (New York, 7:28,29.) southern Palestine. , and Green Just before his the end of Longmans, Co., 1927)e ' I have goneahrough all this , Vol. I pp. ) ministry. Jesus, leaving Pales. ' ' to show, first, that so far as the I cannot question that the 'tine prope r, journeyed east-7 NewTes o t not goes Christ could have spoken w a rd toPerea,.4 1 a few words) have anytamin ' Greek or any other language, the Jordan. of the words of the , Saul was on his way to take if he had wished. Savior. If the original record Another critic says: "Most vengeance on the- group of the was in Aramaic, (A which our '. - scholars would admit that the disciples of Christ in Dapascus ,Greek text is in all or Part a vernacular of Palestine in the In Syria, when he had the great translation, then all we have in time of our Lord was Semitic our English Bible is a translaand not Griek," but notes that, was within two years of the tion of a translation. If the the practice of these scholars crucifixion. The Gospel was original record was in Greek, does not a gree with Wir spreading throug then We have a simple translatheory; "for in all- kinds- - of areas. tion, for it seems 'afar Jesus It is difficrit to conceive that theological writings, critical aS ' did not teach in Greek. well as devotional, the refer- all this spread of the Gospel Z4) , . As1 have flready stateethp db., ences to the text of the Gospels from Palestine into adjacent , of the higher prime purpd constantly assume that the areas was not in the Common . ' critics is to tes blisb the origiGreek words are those actually language of the,entire region, nal Greek text. They are not uttered by our Lord. But if the language, in which Jesus töor Concerned with what the comm-bnlwas and not Greek spoktaught. SaVior actually taught. Perhaps en in the Holy Land, it is imLuke, beginning hisGospel COLLECT OFFICER'S PICTURES this Is best. Dr. 'Hort made some prohal)le that he who minis- '(written somewhere' between Scofield Refertered to the common people 1 A project to collect pictures of past presidents of the attempt to determine m hat the Vould have employed ence Bible, rev. ed., (New York, said Jay what he Spring City Wail Relief Society is under way by its common tongue. It follows that 'Oxford University Press, 1917), conk! "Mrs. officers. Lorna present Jensen, present' president - , the Greek Words recorded by p. 1070), writes:- -tion." "conjecturar'ernrdaof the ward Relief Society, is shown hare with some the Evangelists are not the' sc.- 'Forastnuch as many have as to, what the Saviovsalci or - thepiCtures collected lodate.The pictures will But taken in land-to-stual words Christ, 'spoke. forth In meant, sometimes irrespe a large print which will be hung in the e made intft all the evidence tends to the order a declaration of those of any known text or othe made. Small willt'be Room. also SociePy reprints conviction that Christ habit- - things which are most surely dence, by Processes which his Mrs. Jensen are Mrs. Ethel Sorensen, Mrs. , Aiding critic laughed out of court by ually employed some form of belied among us. Leona State and Mrs. ,Etha Hansen, Relief Society ' - , , 1954 2CHURCH , officers, Saturday, July 31, See.11tES.t tARK on Page IV President Clark's . 1 en Are ntit e 11110.7, ofScripture? it.,--The- y :t - 4 I -to-a herr-at-the-Brigh- am , , .1 I t i ,, - e . - - , I - - ivers-writte- al admitc-seemingl- 75-- ) . -- Extreme-Textualists yi - , theL-iirst-- !lot-inde- r con-elud- - -- - d - I - -- - ..,- - .rc - ' - 4 129-3- 0 we-d- ust-bey- ond . aic - , , y -- AJI-63-6&T- he Savior-actuall- y - -- .. et Re-li- ! , - |
