peshitta

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The Aramaic Tongue

Of the languages of the ancient Near East, one has the odd distinction of having been spoken almost everywhere and written in almost nowhere, until suddenly it was written everywhere. Aramaic began…

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The Syriac New Testament

In the monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, a scholar lifted a palimpsest from a shelf and found beneath it the oldest surviving…