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• Along with the New Testament writings and those of Josephus, we are seeing a pattern emerge here. First, writings in Israel are written in Aramaic, and then they are translated into other languages such as Greek and Latin, potentially much later. As we examine the Peshitta New Testament and compare the Aramaic directly with the Greek, we will see direct evidence of exactly this - that the Aramaic came first, that the Greek came later, with Latin later still. Over time, Greek and Latin simply became more common and more popular - at least in Europe. In the East, Aramaic retained its place as the original and only source of the New Testament.