Formally titled The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts (ISBN 0060649232), the "Lamsa Bible" (which it is commonly called, after its editor, George M. Lamsa) first appeared in 1933. It was derived, both Old and New Testaments, from the Aramaic text used by the Assyrian Church of the East and other Syriac Christian traditions, called the Peshitta text. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The efforts of translating the books of the Bible from the original languages it was written in has spanned for over two millenia. ... The Bible has been translated into many languages. ... A number of Old English Bible translations were prepared in mediaeval England, translations of parts of the Bible into the Old English language. ... Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. ... 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Some places in the Lamsa Bible differ greatly with other English-language Bibles. The most controversial of the Bible's rendering is in Matthew. The Gospel of Matthew (literally: according to Matthew, Grk: kata Maththaion) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ...

Matthew 27:46 is rendered in the KJV:

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This 11th-century portrait is one of many images of Jesus in which a halo with a cross is used. ... The term God (capitalized in English language as a proper noun) is often used to refer to a Supreme Being. ...

In contrast, Matthew 27:46 is rendered in the Lamsa Bible:

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, Eli, Eli lemana shabakthan! My God, my God, for this I was spared!

See the discussions in George Lamsa and Words of Jesus on the cross, section "Eli Eli lema sabachthani". A native Aramaic speaker, Dr. George M. Lamsa (August 5, 1892 – September 22, 1975) was born in Mar Bishu in what is now the extreme east of Turkey. ... The seven words of Jesus on the cross are a traditional collection of seven short phrases uttered by Jesus at his crucifixion gathered from the four Gospels. ...

External links

Lamsa Bible online

Aramaic Bible Center

Excerpts From "New Testament Origins" by George M. Lamsa