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• But let’s continue our timeline. We will see that Aramaic continued to be used!
• First, one of the earliest translations of all - the Armenian Bible in the early fifth century - was made from Aramaic, and not Greek! As we saw in our lesson on the Armenian Bible, in the whole of the land of Armenia, not a single Greek New Testament manuscript could be found. The Aramaic New Testament was all there was.
• Later, we come to Arabic Bible, starting around the 8th century A.D. Like the Armenian Bible before it, yet several centuries later, the Arabic Bible too was translated primarily from the Aramaic New Testament and Aramaic sources.