Aramaic was the native language of Jesus and of Israel in the 1st century AD. This is a literal translation of the 1900] year old Aramaic Old Testament called the Peshitta.

The First Century Aramaic Bible in Plain English The Minor Prophets Hosea to Malachi Book Review: He has a PhD in early Irish biblical exegesis and has also written on Hiberno-Latin biblical literature and on biblical apocrypha in the Irish Church. He has a licentiate in Theology from the Gregorian University, Rome, and a licentiate and doctorate in Scripture from the Biblical Institute, Rome. He is also project director of The Aramaic Bible: The Targums series, published by Liturgical Press. His other publications on the Targums and Judaism include Targum and Testament, Palestinian Judaism and the New Testament, and Intertestamental Literature. Martin McNamara, MSC, PhD, is Professor of Scripture at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin. He has also published a critical edition of the Aramaic text of the Targum of Job.

Stec, PhD, is a lecturer in full-time research for the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, a project of the University of Sheffield. This work provides the first translation into English of the Targum of Psalms, together with an introduction, a critical apparatus listing variants from several manuscripts and their printed editions, and annotations. The NT portion is the original God written covenant given to the churches through the hands of the Apostles and Evangelists writing as they were carried along by The Spirit of Holiness (Rookha d'Qoodsha). The Peshitta (pronounced 'Peh-shee'-ta') was the world's first Christian Bible, compiled in the 1st century AD. This volume of Psalms & Proverbs is translated word for word from the Aramaic Peshitta Bible by the author Glenn David Bauscher as part of his complete translation of the 66 books (39 Old Testament & 27 New Testament) of the traditional canon of the Protestant churches worldwide. They most likely had a strong command of the Hebrew language and Hebrew Bible, as well as the Aramaic language which was the language of Israel, Syria, and the surrounding Fertile Crescent (called 'Mesopotamia' in Greek,'Bayth Nahrayn' in Aramaic), which was then Persia and Babylon the cradle of civilization and even The Garden of Eden. The Peshitta Old Testament most likely was translated from Hebrew manuscripts in Israel by Jews who had converted to Yeshua The Messiah in the 1st century and were familiar with the Semitic names of people and places in Israel at that time. The 1st Century Aramaic Bible in Plain English Psalms and Proverbs Book Review:

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