Aramaic bible in plain english lamsa6/4/2023 According to Lamsa, "Aramaic was the colloquial and literary language of Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, from the fourth century B. In support of this, he claimed that Aramaic was the language of Jesus and his disciples. Lamsa was a strong advocate of a belief traditionally held by part of that Church that the Aramaic New Testament of the Peshitta was the original source text, and that the Greek texts were translated from it. The language spoken in the first century would have been Old Aramaic, like the Judeo-Aramaic language, while Ancient Aramaic like Biblical Aramaic was used in Old Testament times. The Peshitta was written in classical Syriac, a dialect of Middle Aramaic, which is in turn a Semitic language. Some of the modern Assyrian people speak a modern form of the classical Syriac language called Northeastern Neo-Aramaic. Lamsa was a member of the Assyrian Church of the East, a Syriac Church, which uses the Peshitta as its Bible.
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