Posted on 01/22/2006 3:32:48 PM PST by NYer
There are something like 6 Peshito manuscripts, I have translations of two of them.
I had the Murdock text rebound a few years back by a fellow here, a very, very reclusive Russian immigrant who does EXCELLENT work.
Cost a pretty penny, and I was worried about doing it because some of the old volumes had very high acid paper that disintegrated after a while.
But this volume has the good paper.
It was interesting in "The Passion", when I heard them say Kaiser, the Germanic/Aramaic term for Caesar.
Yes and are the only Eastern Church that uses unleavened bread, as far as I know. But, it retains the Eastern approach of intinction and on the tongue.
No, they were speaking Latin. Classical Latin pronounces "Caesar" as "Kai-zar". The Germans spell it "Kaiser," but it's the same word.
That's usual practice, but intinction is absolutely allowed in the Latin Rite. Self-intinction is not (the minister has to dip the Host in the Blood, not the communicant), but intinction is permitted.
Liturgists don't seem to approve of it, however, so it's not seen very often. And, of course, it's not compatible with communion in the hand. (All the more reason to do it, IMO, but nobody listens to me. :-0)
OK, well, I know I heard somebody say Kaiser, it must have been the soldiers.
Its also the way it is pronounced in Greek.
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