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• Thus, with Syriac being such as an extensive language, going back to the fifth century B.C., with it being in use over such a vast geographical area from Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, at the farthest extent of the Roman Empire, all the way to Kerala in India and beyond, with it remaining in use as a written language well into Crusader times, with it still being spoken today, with the fact that 90% of existing Aramaic literature is written in Syriac, should there be any surprise at all that Syriac would be the dialect of Aramaic that the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament should have been written in?