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• Does that not tell us everything we need to know about the importance and authenticity of the Aramaic New Testament? In the east, the Aramaic New Testament is all there has ever been. In the west, other translations such as Greek and Latin became dominant, became popular, but the Aramaic New Testament has always been there, and always been highly regarded. The Aramaic New Testament is the common denominator. It is the original, from which others derive. Churches in the east have been more conservative, more likely to stick to that Aramaic gospel that was first preached to them. The west is more liberal, abandoning the Aramaic gospel that was preached to them, and adopting first the Greek New Testament, and later the Latin New Testament, and soon after just about any other translation, English or otherwise, in preference to that original Aramaic gospel that was once preached by the disciples and apostles.