Problems With Peshitta Primacy<\/a>. The Peshitta manuscripts only date from the fifth century; whereas the Greek text is traced back to the first century.<\/p>\nIn the original text, it states that Timothy’s father was a\u00a0Hellenos<\/em>, which is the Greek word for Greek.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: In\u00a0Was Timothy’s father a non-believer? you said, “In the end, I think all you can state is that Timothy’s father was of Greek nationality.” But Acts 16:1 (translated from Aramaic Peshitta, based on Younan) says, “And he arrived at the medintha [city] Derbe and at Lostra. Now there was there a certain talmida [student]…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[144,851,331,311],"class_list":["post-54162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-acts","tag-messianic-judaism","tag-timothy","tag-translations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18670,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/which-is-the-better-way-to-pronounce-jesus-name-yahsua-or-yeshua\/","url_meta":{"origin":54162,"position":0},"title":"Which is the better way to pronounce Jesus’ name: Yahsua or Yeshua?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Thank you very much for your article on\u00a0\"Understanding\u00a0the\u00a0 Tetragrammaton: How is it\u00a0Pronounced.\" I am in total agreement with your research and conclusion as to the\u00a0Tetragrammaton\u00a0yhwh\u00a0being pronounced as\u00a0yahweh. Can you share your thoughts and opinion as to the pronunciation of our Lord and Savior, Jesus? Which is more correct in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22139,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-timothys-father-a-non-believer\/","url_meta":{"origin":54162,"position":1},"title":"Was Timothy’s father a non-believer?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: One passage I'm having a problem with is\u00a0Acts 16:1. In time past I have\u00a0heard a couple of different preachers on different occasions\u00a0say some that Timothy's father was a \"non-believer\". I am not confident in teaching\u00a0that Timothy's\u00a0father was\/was not a believer.\u00a0 While it is true the text does not say\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28480,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-the-new-testament-written-in-greek-or-aramaic\/","url_meta":{"origin":54162,"position":2},"title":"Was the New Testament written in Greek or Aramaic?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: In what language was the New Testament written: Greek or Aramaic? Answer: The New Testament was written in Greek. All the earliest manuscripts are in Greek. The style of writing is in the Greek style, though some of the writers, such as Matthew, wrote with a Hebrew \"accent,\" if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13364,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-greek-and-a-gentile\/","url_meta":{"origin":54162,"position":3},"title":"What is the difference between a Greek and a Gentile?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Can someone help me understand who is referred to when the Bible speaks of a Greek and Gentile? For instance, Timothy's father was Greek. Does that mean he was a Gentile? And Paul said in Romans 1, \"It is the power of God ... to the Jew first and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39665,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-language-was-the-new-testament-written-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":54162,"position":4},"title":"What language was the New Testament written in?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What is the real Greek of the New Testament? Koine Greek or Aramaic? Wikipedia says suggests it is Aramaic Greek, but I was taught it was Koine Greek but you can find many websites that say it was Koine Greek, this has become very confusing to me. Which is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23494,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/my-research-says-that-matthew-mistranslated-eli-eli-lama-sabachthani\/","url_meta":{"origin":54162,"position":5},"title":"My research says that Matthew mistranslated “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am sorry I am going to have to agree with the guy who questioned you on\u00a0\"Could Jesus have said \"My God, my God, for this I was kept?\". Yeshua, the Son of God, AKA Jesus Christos, Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic and while Matthew was a Greek scholar, he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}