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SusanAlane
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Hello everyone.
I am facilitating a beginning apologetics course using the program of the same name by Father Frank Chacon and Jim Burnham. In the first Unit on the Eucharist, the authors make reference to the expression to “eat the body” and “drink the blood” of another. The phrase is used often in the Old Testament in regard to assault, and the authors claim that in fact, the expression’s symbolic, idiomatic meaning in Aramaic is exactly that. They are using this argument as evidence that Christ was not speaking symbolically at the last supper and in the days leading up to it, but literally as the symbolic meaning would not make sense in context. Great argument BUT they cited no source to support the claim. Does anyone here have such a source? Any Aramaic speakers out there who have studied ancient Middle Eastern culture??? (Or a simple book reference would work, too)
I am facilitating a beginning apologetics course using the program of the same name by Father Frank Chacon and Jim Burnham. In the first Unit on the Eucharist, the authors make reference to the expression to “eat the body” and “drink the blood” of another. The phrase is used often in the Old Testament in regard to assault, and the authors claim that in fact, the expression’s symbolic, idiomatic meaning in Aramaic is exactly that. They are using this argument as evidence that Christ was not speaking symbolically at the last supper and in the days leading up to it, but literally as the symbolic meaning would not make sense in context. Great argument BUT they cited no source to support the claim. Does anyone here have such a source? Any Aramaic speakers out there who have studied ancient Middle Eastern culture??? (Or a simple book reference would work, too)