Benjamin Kantor - spelling / orthography - The Most Objective Textual Critic You’ll Ever Meet - Aramaic for John

[Steven Avery]

Peter Gurry
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NTT...27348617534&reply_comment_id=7448152591938343

Matthew Rose to take but one small example, it is quite striking that Vaticanus appears to accurately preserve first-century spelling conventions against later shifts prevalent when it was made.

The Most Objective Textual Critic You’ll Ever Meet
Benjamin Kantor
https://textandcanon.org/the-most-objective-textual-critic-youll-ever-meet/

 

[Steven Avery]

Steven Avery
Peter Gurry - from the paper:
“Hebrew name יוחנן yōḥānān”
“Aramaic name יוחנה yōḥannā”
Do you have any confirmation that those five letters somehow give a male Aramaic name with a double “n”?
My preliminary checking gives this explanation no support, but I would like someone skilled in Aramaic to weigh in.
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Iehane
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Iehane
The same five letters are shown as a Hebrew female name:
“Hebrew יוחנה‎ (Yōḥannā).”
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If the Aramaic-Hebrew distinction does hot hold up well, that will go a long way to defunctivizing the Benjamin Kantor article.