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- The Peshitta New Testament is also written in the Syriac dialect of Aramaic. And the Peshitta Old and New Testaments have been preserved carefully ever since. Many churches across the world still use and revere the Peshitta New Testament as the very original Word of God, personally handed down to them by the apostles and disciples themselves, and still read and used in the liturgy today.
- Syriac then, is a critically important dialect of Aramaic. Let us examine a little more of the history of Syriac, as we seek to better understand its significance.