THE MOST ORIGINAL BIBLE?
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THE ORIGINAL ARAMAIC BIBLE IN ENGLISH.
OLD & NEW TESTAMENT.
TRANSLATED BY GEORGE LAMSA.
What makes this translation so special as to be treasured? There are no known existing original manuscripts of the Bible. But copies were made from the originals, and then copies were made from those copies, and so on.
Today we do have a few ancient copies and many fragments of copies. The oldest known existing copies that went with the Western church were written mostly in Hebrew for the Old Testament, and then Greek for the New Testament, (although a few copies of the Book of Matthew were found in Hebrew).
So we in the Western church tend to think that the Bible was originally written in Hebrew & Greek with just a few Old Testament books written in Aramaic.
But the copies that went with the Eastern church were all written in Aramaic. It seems likely that the original manuscripts for both Old & New Testament were written in Aramaic. The Aramaic language is similar to Hebrew. These Aramaic Bibles are called the “Peshitta”, which means, “the original”.