Why waste the time and resources to translate the Bible from English into Aramaic? Seems stupid...
2007-05-27 05:01:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Shoot! It is just silly!
2007-05-27 05:10:05 · update #1
Because it was the language of Jesus (pbuh)
2007-05-27 05:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by A Said 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Bible was translated FROM Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek INTO Latin, and then into other languages. Modern-day Aramaic Bibles should be translated from original texts, NOT from modern "English" Bibles and then into Aramaic languages.
There are plenty of Aramaic Christians in the Middle East, and plenty of Middle-Eastern Christian people who have emigrated to the US. These people still speak and read their native language: Aramaic. They would read the Bible in Aramaic also!
2007-05-27 05:21:17 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) New Aramaic is spoken in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Georgia, Armenia and Israel. The total number of native speakers is not big, but it is still not "no one".
2) The Bible was written in Hebrew (Old Testament), Aramaic and Greek (New Testament). There's no need to translate the bible from English to New Aramaic.
2007-05-27 05:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by yotg 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Aramaic is still spoken in countries in the Middle East though most are Muslim or Islam nations. The "Great Commission"
as expressed by Jesus is to spread the word of God to everyone....so this is why the Bible has no barriers to languages unless someone just hasn't translated it yet, but as Christians see a language that needs translating they will if someone can benefit (to receive the Word of God)
RD
2007-05-27 05:12:08 · answer #4 · answered by Richard D 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know where you get your information, but aramaic is still used.
Latin is still used. Scarcely...but cultural traditionalists keep it alive. Gaelic is alive as well...but why? who knows. It just is.
mika... you know jack. aramaic was the language used in palestine by several ethnic groups in the time of Jesus. But the universal languages in that area were greek and latin in the west. these were the languages used by ecclesiastical church to write down scripture for the septuagint and the new testament. Even though Jesus spoke aramaic, you can bet he was probably familiar with greek.
The books of the bible were not originally written in chinese...put down the gum wrapper history.
2007-05-27 05:11:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
It was translated from those languages, not the other way around.
2007-05-27 05:06:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you trying to be funny? The bible was written in Aramaic and Greek, then translated in to Latin, then English.
2007-05-27 05:05:36 · answer #7 · answered by Valarian 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From my credible sources, Aramaic was the original language the bible was written in.
2007-05-27 09:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They were originally in Greek and Hebrew, and a couple in Latin.
Never Aramaic.
However, either Nag Hammadi or The dead sea scrolls (I think the later) have translations into Aramaic.
2007-05-27 05:12:54 · answer #9 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I thought Aramic was the original language it was written in, That's just silly.
2007-05-27 05:06:11 · answer #10 · answered by Black Hole Gravity Unleashed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was done for mainly the preist in the church.
during the early years of Christianty aramic was still spoken.
so the preist need to know how to speak it so they could communicate with the people.
2007-05-27 05:06:53 · answer #11 · answered by mikahiwatari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋