J. W. Etheridge (1846)
* John Wesley Etheridge's translation of the entire New Testament appears in ''The Etheridge New Testament'' (2013) compiled by Bruce A. Klein (has Etheridge's bracketed comments), and also in ''Etheridge Translation of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament'' (2016) compiled by Ewan MacLeod
* ''Murdock Translation of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament'' (2015) compiled by Ewan MacLeod
* ''The Syriac New Testament'', based on the western text,
James Murdock (1851)
[Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Translation – Page 8 =0967961351 Janet M. Magiera – 2006 – "One was by James Murdock and the other by J. W. Etheridge. Murdock based his work on the western text and Etheridge on the eastern text. Both of them are still very useful in studying the Peshitta. In the 1930s, Dr. George Lamsa, a native speaker of Aramaic, completed a translation of the eastern manuscripts of the Peshitta and began to travel extensively in the United States, teaching about the value of studying Aramaic. From that time until the present, there has been a renewed ..."]
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The New Testament According to the Eastern Text''. Translated from Original Aramaic Sources. Philadelphia: A.J. Holman, 1940, based on the eastern text,
George Lamsa
George M. Lamsa ( syr, ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ ܠܡܣܐ) (August 5, 1892 – September 22, 1975) was an Assyrian author. He was born in Mar Bishu in what is now the extreme east of Turkey. A native Aramaic speaker, he translated the Aramaic Peshitta Ol ...
* ''The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated'' (2019) by David Bauscher
''The Original Aramaic New Testament in Plain English with Psalms & Proverbs (8th edition with notes)''(2013) by David Bauscher
* ''Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Translation'' by Janet M. Magiera
* ''The Messianic Aleph Tav Interlinear Scriptures: Volume Four Gospels'' (2016) and ''Messianic Aleph Tav Interlinear Scriptures: Volume Five Acts-Revelation'' by William H. Sanford (interlinear Aramaic + Etheridge translation; interlinear Greek + English translation)
* ''The Aramaic Gospels and Acts: Text and Translation'' (2003) by Joseph Pashka
* ''A Translation, in English Daily Used, of the Peshito-Syriac Text, and of the Received Greek Text, of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John'' (1889) and ''A Translation, In English Daily Used, of the Seventeen Letters Forming Part of the Peshito-Syriac Books'' (1890) by William Norton
* ''The Testimony of Yeshua'' (2013) by Lonnie Martin is a reworked Etheridge and Murdock rendition of the New Testament
* ''The Message of Matthew: An Annotated Parallel Aramaic-English Gospel of Matthew'' (1991) by Rocco A. Errico
* ''Crawford Codex of Revelation: Aramaic Interlinear with English Translation'' (2016) by Greg Glaser
* Gorgias Press's ''The Antioch Bible'' series contains the Peshitta New Testament with English translation, plus many Peshitta Old Testament books
* ''Lapid Jewish Aramaic New Testament'' by Christopher Fredrickson and Lapid Publications is a translation from the Khabouris Codex, Yonan Codex and Houghton 1199 Codex. It also includes 560 transliterations and definitions of key Aramaic words and phrases within the text. (2010)
This list does not include adaptations of such as the ''Hebraic Roots Version'' by James Trimm (2001) which are adaptations from the JPS New Testament (translated directly from Greek into Hebrew), not the Peshitta.
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Jane Aitken
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English translations of the Bible
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Pentateuch
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Peshitta
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Psalms
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Septuagint
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Textus Receptus
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Vulgate
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References
* Catalogue of English Bible Translations; A Classified Bibliography of Versions and Editions Including Books, Parts, and Old and New Testament Apocrypha and Apocryphal Books. William J. Chamberlin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Further reading
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Wills, Garry, "A Wild and Indecent Book" (review of
David Bentley Hart
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, ''The New Testament: A Translation'',
Yale University Press
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The New York Review of Books
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New Testament
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External links
Bibelarchiv Vegelahn: English Bible translations illustrated list with historical details and extracts from the publishers'
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List of English Bible Versions, Translations, and Paraphrases– a very extensive list by
Steven DeRose
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Dukhrana.com— site contains the transcription of the
Khaboris Codex
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Colophon
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plus Etheridge, Murdock, Lamsa, Younan's interlinear translation of Matthew – Acts 16, translations into Dutch and Afrikaans, and an interlinear study tool.
Lamsa – OTan
— Lamsa's translation of the Peshitta's Old Testament and New Testament
aramaicdb.lightofword.org— site contains Magiera and Murdock, and an interlinear study tool
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