Exploring the Aramaic Peshitta: Your Guide to the "Simple" Bible The Peshitta
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While the New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the spoken tongue of Jesus and his disciples was Aramaic. The Peshitta is a masterful translation into Classical Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic. Some scholars argue that certain passages—especially the words of Christ—gain back their lost poetic rhythm, wordplay, and idiomatic punch when read in Aramaic. For example, Jesus’ cry “Eli, Eli, lemana shabakthani?” is closer in sound and meaning to the Peshitta’s text than to the Greek. Exploring the Aramaic Peshitta: Your Guide to the
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