| Message | Raphael,
Thanks very much for your book "Was the NT really written in Greek?" I was initially very skeptical when I downloaded this, and thought it would be an article of a few pages long. To my amazement, I found the book extremely convincing, with long detailed arguments and examples that I just can't argue against. I am now convinced, like you, that the NT was written originally in Aramaic.
I know Hebrew well, so although Aramaic is fairly new to me, I am learning it extremely fast, aided by some of the articles in your book, but also by the new Peshitta NT module in BibleWorks. Having tried to learn Greek as well, I can really understand the reasons why among Jews in the 1st century, Aramaic was easy to adopt with a background of Hebrew, and why Josephus had such problems learning Greek, and why Greek was regarded as a foreign, undesired, language.
Regards,
Ewan MacLeod (Malvern, England, UK) |