Tag: Aramaic
Music Monday: Psalm 53 (Aramaic)
Following on from last week’s post, here is some more Aramaic chant. This is sung by Assyrian Eastern Orthodox Archimandrite Serafim and is the text of Psalm 53:
Bible Translations
One of my friends sent me an email asking about Bible translations and requesting an introductory post on the subject. Well Ricardo, here you go…
Before we start talking about different translations, let’s begin by considering the language of the original Biblical manuscripts, which are known as “autographs”. In what language were these originals documents written? Despite what Henry Higgins suggests, the Bible was not originally written in English…
So, if it wasn’t English, in what language was the Bible initially written? Well, the original Biblical documents were, in fact, written in several languages. Different languages were used for the Old Testament and New Testament, so let’s look at them in turn…