| Message | I had been aware of the Peshitta for a number of years, and had used it in my studies as well. Even though I was aware of the antiquity of the book, I had no idea that it was considered by many to be the original language of the New Testament scriptures. That all changed while searching for a copy of the Peshitta online and stumbling across Chris' website. What I found there was a little book that would challenge everything I had known about the language in which the New Testament was penned. Like so many others, I had always just assumed that the New Testament was written in Greek. Why not? I had been told so by others for many years, and knew of no opposing arguments.
Chris' book set those arguments before me. These were not the arguments of a weak position, but of a position so strong that I had to wonder why I had never before heard of Aramaic Peshitta primacy. Chris' book compiles arguments for Peshitta primacy, sending them out one by one as solitary scouts until, by the closing chapters, the reader is quickly aware that these small scouts have come together into battalions, marching against the entrenched walls of traditional assumption. As with the walls of old Jericho, the walls of Greek primacy will fall down flat.
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