This New Testament will surprise and thrill the reader with its power and inspiration coming from the words of 'Yeshua' (?Jesus? in ancient Aramaic) as He originally spoke them, in a literal, accurate and readable English rendering.Abundant documentation of the Aramaic Peshitta as the original NT is included. Note how they all render it the same way. When it says it is written in Plain English, that means it is putting things in the clearest possible way Here are different translations of John 8:58. There are over a dozen new religious groups (such as Astara, Edgar Cayce study groups and Victor Paul Wierwille’s The Way) which make use of this Bible and Lamsa’s other writings to change the meaning of the biblical text into their own meanings. Aramaic was used in Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion of the Christ' to make the film as realistic and accurate as possible. The translation used in the article above is the Aramaic Bible in Plain English. Nevertheless, Lamsa argued that the original Aramaic text of the Bible was the Syriac Peshitta, hence his magnum opus comprises an English translation of this document, titled The Holy Bible From Ancient Eastern Manuscripts. This translation is derived from the author's Aramaic-English Interlinear New Testament + Psalms & Proverbs interlinears. It annoys me when people pretend as though one language is better than. And the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek. (Not) sorry to disappoint you that Hebrew and Aramaic are not the only languages that exist. The fountainhead of that stream was William Tyndales New Testament of 1526 marking its course were the King James Version of 1611 (KJV), the English Revised Version of 1885 (RV), the American Standard Version of 1901 (ASV), and the Revised Standard Version of 1952. This is a translation (8th edition-2015) of The Aramaic New Testament (Aramaic was the language of Jesus and his countrymen of 1st century Israel) in an English prose translation of The Peshitta New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs at the end. The reason English speakers use the English Bible and not Aramaic is because theyre literate in English, not Aramaic. The English Standard Version (ESV) stands in the classic mainstream of English Bible translations over the past half-millennium.

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