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• Syriac was clearly the normal, natural, everyday spoken language for hundred of thousands of people in the Middle East (and way beyond) at the time. Why would any other dialect of Aramaic be chosen by our Heavenly Father to preserve His Word in? Only Syriac makes sense. It is unmistakably Aramaic, yet remained in use, rooted in time, long enough for the Aramaic Old Testament, and especially the Aramaic New Testament, to be both preserved for all of that time, and more importantly, actually used and read. It is no wonder that Syriac is the Aramaic dialect used in the Peshitta Old Testament and the Peshitta New Testament.