Biblical Hebrew Forum

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My understanding is that the Syriac churches maintain that since the  
apostles (like Jesus) spoke Aramaic, they would naturally have written in  
Aramaic 
and then translated into Greek, so they consider the Peshitta NT to be  the 
authentic original writings of the apostles.  Am I correct?
 
In a message dated 6/21/2004 8:16:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
gfsomsel AT juno.com writes:

Syriac  Church that
they would translate from the Peshitta rather than use the  Greek of the
New Testament