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• But… in the east, it is an entirely different story. In the east, meaning ‘east of Israel’, the history of Christianity is almost exclusively the history of Aramaic, and of the Aramaic New Testament. Everywhere we go, right from the very beginning, it was always the Aramaic New Testament that was used. Except maybe in relatively recent times, the Greek New Testament and the Latin New Testament have both been conspicuous by their absence. In modern times, of course, translations have subsequently been introduced. But the Aramaic New Testament was always what churches across the east used, right from the beginning, across thousands of miles of unrelated countries.