Aramaic Peshitta New Testament (AIIAPNT)

Overview

The Aramaic Peshitta New Testament is an English translation of the Peshitta, the earliest complete manuscript of the New Testament and, in Aramaic, the language of the first century. The translation aims to be as literal as possible while remaining readable in English, conveying the flavor and rhythm of the Eastern language, and is issued as a softbound edition. Its underlying critical Peshitta text was assembled from the work of Philip E. Pusey, G. H. Gwilliam, John Gwynn, and J. Gwilliam with G. H. Pinkerton, based on a collation of more than seventy Peshitta and other Aramaic manuscripts. Pusey began the collation in 1872 but died in 1880; Gwilliam and colleagues continued the work to its publication in 1905.

Language and People

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (ISO 639-3: aii) is spoken by approximately 626,000 people in Iraq. [Glottolog: assy1241]

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