Aramaic Primacy

This talk is a review of the basic arguments for Aramaic Primacy. Aramaic is the language that was used to pass the New Testament down through history. This is why there was no early scribal tradition surrounding Greek.

Errata

Aramaic Primacy is held by a major eastern branch of Christianity known as the "Church of the East." Their historical home was in what is now northern Iraq. It was from refugees to the USA from Iraq that this idea was first learned.

We later came to understand that the entire Bible, in Aramaic, is older and closer to the original Paleo form. We now apply the principle of Aramaic Primacy to the entire Bible passed to us by history.

The video above was recorded months before we learned this.

Note also that as the Hebrew was being edited, parts of those edits were transferred into the Aramaic Old Testament. That editing history is at times revealed through study of the differences in those manuscript traditions.