[Tweeker]

I guess when Jesus from the scroll of Isaiah the prophet (ha Neviim)in Luke 4 it was what...in Latin?

I guess when he taught the Jewish disiples how to pray they thought they would be best understood by the God of Abraham, Isac & Jacob if they spoke in.... Aramaic?

I guess when Matthew was quoting the prophets to affirm Jesus's messiahship he spoke in Aramaic.

Sorry, Aramaic may hacve been spoken throughout Judea in the first century (and Roman by the occupiers) but Hebrew was spoken also.

I just wonder why you discounted the fact that Hebrew should be included if they truly wanted to portray an accurate re-enactment. You really have to throw the baby out with the bathwater to maintain your position.

[djf]

"To extend his own long cherished but scanty knowledge of the Syriac language, the writer commenced reading the Peshito Syriac New Testament in January, 1845, and at every step he found increasing delight. The artless simplicity, directness, and transparency of the style, --the propriety and beauty of the conceptions of Christ and his followers, as expressed in a Shemitish dialect very nearly identical with their vernacular tongue, the pleasing thought that the words were, probably, in great part, the very terms which the Savior and his Apostles actually uttered in their discourses and conversations, and especially the full comprehension which the Syriac translator seemed to have of the force and meaning of the inspired original, served to chain attention and hold the mind spell bound to the book"


Preface
The New Testament;
or,
THE BOOK OF THE HOLY GOSPEL
of our Lord and our God,
JESUS THE MESSIAH.
A literal translation from the Syriac Peshito version
By James Murdock, D.D.
Robert Carter and Brothers
1879


Badly needs rebinding, in my possession since 1980