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What did the Aramaic gospel say?

The first Christian writing was “The Sayings of Our Lord,” written in Aramaic by the Apostle Matthew.  (This was not the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, which was written not by the Apostle Matthew but by a later gospel-writer, and was called the Gospel of Matthew because it incorporated most of “The Sayings of Our Lord.”)  It was the original Aramaic account written by one of the Jesus’ disciples, an eyewitness to the life of Jesus.  It is therefore very important because it was the original Aramaic account.  But when it was translated from Aramaic into Greek (the Antioch Evangelion quoted in the Didache) there were about two hundred translation errors.  Some were minor, some were major.

The Antoch Evangelion was used by the authors of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and its Aramaic-to-Greek translation errors were (and are) present in the Greek text of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.  And these translation errors are present in the every Bible today.  (The Aramaic original of the Gospel of John had fewer translation errors, but many of its translation errors were theologically very significant since they strengthen the gospel’s statement of Jesus’ divinity!)

The book The Aramaic Hypothesis opens with a 36-page “Hypothesis” section that reconstructs the literary history of the Aramaic documents underlying the four gospels.  It then gives the King James text of the four gospels, making the revisions to the text of the gospels given by the previously mentioned scholars.  The revisions are given in bold type, and each has a footnote explaining the reason for the change.  There are several hundred revisions altogether in the four gospels.  An appendix lists the source(s) for each revision.  286 pp.  Catalogue no. FGP-0001

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