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Synopsis from the back of the book:

Now presented in a handsome new edition: the classic version of the Holy Bible as translated directly from the Aramaic text - the language Jesus spoke - by scholar George Lamsa.

The translator grew up in the Middle East speaking Aramaic, steeped in a culture with customs, manners and language almost identical to the times of Jesus. These resources are all brought to bear on his life's work of translating the Aramaic Scriptures - called the Peshitta - into English.

Lamsa laboured to eliminate errors that crept in through intermediary translations of the testaments into Latin and Greek. He corrected crucial mistranslations due to the confusion of letters and words by translators who approached the complexities of Aramaic grammar without the abilities of a native speaker.

The result is a fresh, direct and vigourous language; new clarity to confusing or contradictory passages, and a unique feel for idiom, image and message fully in keeping with the spirit of the Old and New Testaments.